In reply to JakeWilliamson17:
I hate to write this, but it's intended constructively. I started with good faith and had given up by the page with the misspelling of misuse.
It's not the misspelling - that's OK, we all do it. It was a question before that that I couldn't parse as an English sentence and just took a stab. Plus what someone else called the framing.
"Do the practices of those who manage...."; "Do you think sustainability is important to the organisations that manage..." Who do you think manages ? Do you know ? OK, unfair questions, it's you doing the asking. Well, I think I know how trails in Lochaber get "managed." Some are run within commercial ventures. Some are RoW for which the landowners have obligations. Some are customary paths under Right to Roam. Some are stalker's paths. Others are... well, there are a few answers. Some organisations care deeply about sustainability, some care deeply about tax breaks, re-election and blasting grouse and Hen Harriers. But if you don't know (because you haven't asked) which of these permutations and combinations I'm assuming when I give an opinion about those organisations and their practices, then I have no confidence that your research is going to represent my opinion, value my time or generate the slightest "insight."
Time to head back to your Supervisor and review your research design.
Yes, that's just the opinion of some guy on the internet. Someone who's done primary research in cultural/qualitative matters, who's used a few trails around Lochaber and approached this with kindness in the way that I'd want to be approached. I plaintively suggest that if you can't draw me in to complete, well, you know....
Good luck. Hope you can produce something rigorous and constructive.
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