Key methods in geography /
Key methods in geography /
edited by Nicholas Clifford, Meghan Cope, Thomas Gillespie & Shaun French.
- 3rd ed.
- Los Angeles: Sage, 2016.
- xxx, 722 p. illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Previous edition 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Getting started in geographical research: how this book can help / Health, safety, and risk in the field / On being ethical in geographical research / How to conduct a literature search / Effective research communication / Working in different cultures and different languages / Historical and archival research / Conducting questionnaire surveys / Semi-structured interviews and focus groups / Respondent diaries / Participant and non-participant observation / Participatory action research / Textual analysis / Interpreting the visual / Using geotagged digital social data in geographic research / Researching virtual communities / Critical GIS / Quantitative modeling in human geography / Making observations and measurements in the field / Making observations and measurements in the laboratory / Getting information from the past: palaeoecological studies of terrestrial ecosystems / Numerical modeling: understanding explanation and prediction in physical geography / Simulation and reduced complexity models / Remote sensing and satellite earth observation / Digital terrain analysis / Environmental GIS / Models and data in biogeography and landscape ecology / Environmental audit, appraisal and valuation / Making use of secondary data / Using statistics to describe and explore spatial data / Exploring and presenting quantitative data / Case study methodology / Mapping and graphicacy / Statistical analysis using MINITAB and SPSS / Organizing, coding and analyzing qualitative data / Using geographical information systems (GIS) / Video, audio and technology-based applications / Nick Clifford, Meghan Cope, Tom Gillespie, Shaun French, and Gill Valentine -- Joanna Bullard -- Iain Hay -- Mick Healey and Ruth L. Healey -- Jennifer Hill and Helen Walkington -- Fiona M. Smith -- Ruth Craggs -- Sara L. McLafferty -- Robyn Longhurst -- Alan Latham -- Eric Laurier -- Researching affect and emotion / Ben Anderson -- Myrna M. Breitbart -- Marcus A. Doel -- Liz Roberts -- Ate Poorthuis, Matthew Zook, Taylor Shelton, Mark Graham, and Monica Stephens -- Mike Crang and Siti Mazidah Haji Mohamad -- Matthew W. Wilson -- Alan Marshall -- Shelly A. Rayback -- Scott A. Mensing -- Laura N. Stahle and Cathy Whitlock -- Stuart N. Lane -- James D.A. Millington -- Martin J. Wooster, Thomas Smith and Nick A. Drake -- Peter L. Guth -- Thomas W. Gillespie -- George P. Malanson and Benjamin W. Heumann -- Peter Glaves -- Naomi Tyrrell -- Eric Delmelle -- Richard Field -- Liz Taylor -- Chris Perkins -- Stewart Barr -- Meghan Cope and Hilda Kurtz -- Nigel Walford -- Bradley L. Garrett. Planning a research project: getting started and putting your research into context -- Generating and working with data in human geography -- Generating and working with data in physical and environmental geography -- Geographical analysis: representing, visualizing, and interpreting geograhical data --
9781446298602
Geography--Research--Methodology.
910.72 / CLI/K
Previous edition 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Getting started in geographical research: how this book can help / Health, safety, and risk in the field / On being ethical in geographical research / How to conduct a literature search / Effective research communication / Working in different cultures and different languages / Historical and archival research / Conducting questionnaire surveys / Semi-structured interviews and focus groups / Respondent diaries / Participant and non-participant observation / Participatory action research / Textual analysis / Interpreting the visual / Using geotagged digital social data in geographic research / Researching virtual communities / Critical GIS / Quantitative modeling in human geography / Making observations and measurements in the field / Making observations and measurements in the laboratory / Getting information from the past: palaeoecological studies of terrestrial ecosystems / Numerical modeling: understanding explanation and prediction in physical geography / Simulation and reduced complexity models / Remote sensing and satellite earth observation / Digital terrain analysis / Environmental GIS / Models and data in biogeography and landscape ecology / Environmental audit, appraisal and valuation / Making use of secondary data / Using statistics to describe and explore spatial data / Exploring and presenting quantitative data / Case study methodology / Mapping and graphicacy / Statistical analysis using MINITAB and SPSS / Organizing, coding and analyzing qualitative data / Using geographical information systems (GIS) / Video, audio and technology-based applications / Nick Clifford, Meghan Cope, Tom Gillespie, Shaun French, and Gill Valentine -- Joanna Bullard -- Iain Hay -- Mick Healey and Ruth L. Healey -- Jennifer Hill and Helen Walkington -- Fiona M. Smith -- Ruth Craggs -- Sara L. McLafferty -- Robyn Longhurst -- Alan Latham -- Eric Laurier -- Researching affect and emotion / Ben Anderson -- Myrna M. Breitbart -- Marcus A. Doel -- Liz Roberts -- Ate Poorthuis, Matthew Zook, Taylor Shelton, Mark Graham, and Monica Stephens -- Mike Crang and Siti Mazidah Haji Mohamad -- Matthew W. Wilson -- Alan Marshall -- Shelly A. Rayback -- Scott A. Mensing -- Laura N. Stahle and Cathy Whitlock -- Stuart N. Lane -- James D.A. Millington -- Martin J. Wooster, Thomas Smith and Nick A. Drake -- Peter L. Guth -- Thomas W. Gillespie -- George P. Malanson and Benjamin W. Heumann -- Peter Glaves -- Naomi Tyrrell -- Eric Delmelle -- Richard Field -- Liz Taylor -- Chris Perkins -- Stewart Barr -- Meghan Cope and Hilda Kurtz -- Nigel Walford -- Bradley L. Garrett. Planning a research project: getting started and putting your research into context -- Generating and working with data in human geography -- Generating and working with data in physical and environmental geography -- Geographical analysis: representing, visualizing, and interpreting geograhical data --
9781446298602
Geography--Research--Methodology.
910.72 / CLI/K