Key Methods in GeographyNicholas Clifford, Meghan Cope, Thomas Gillespie, Shaun French "Practical, accessible, careful and interesting, this...revised volume brings the subject up-to-date and explains, in bite sized chunks, the ′how′s′ and ′why′s′ of modern day geographical study...[It] brings together physical and human approaches again in a new synthesis." —Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
The teaching of research methods is integral to all geography courses: Key Methods in Geography, Third Edition explains all of the key methods with which geography undergraduates must be conversant. |
Contents
HOW THIS BOOK CAN HELP | 3 |
CHAPTER 2 HEALTH SAFETY AND RISK IN THE FIELD | 19 |
CHAPTER 3 ON BEING ETHICAL IN GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH | 30 |
CHAPTER 4 HOW TO CONDUCT A LITERATURE SEARCH | 44 |
CHAPTER 5 EFFECTIVE RESEARCH COMMUNICATION | 62 |
CHAPTER 6 WORKING IN DIFFERENT CULTURES AND DIFFERENT LANGUAGES | 88 |
SECTION TWO GENERATING AND WORKING WITH DATA IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY | 109 |
CHAPTER 7 HISTORICAL AND ARCHIVAL RESEARCH | 111 |
CHAPTER 21 MAKING OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS IN THE LABORATORY | 336 |
PALAEOECOLOGICAL STUDIES OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS | 345 |
UNDERSTANDING EXPLANATION AND PREDICTION IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY | 373 |
CHAPTER 24 SIMULATION AND REDUCED COMPLEXITY MODELS | 400 |
CHAPTER 25 REMOTE SENSING AND SATELLITE EARTH OBSERVATION | 423 |
CHAPTER 26 DIGITAL TERRAIN ANALYSIS | 439 |
CHAPTER 27 ENVIRONMENTAL GIS | 456 |
CHAPTER 28 MODELS AND DATA IN BIOGEOGRAPHY AND LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 470 |
CHAPTER 8 CONDUCTING QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS | 129 |
CHAPTER 9 SEMISTRUCTURED INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS | 143 |
CHAPTER 10 RESPONDENT DIARIES | 157 |
CHAPTER 11 PARTICIPANT AND NONPARTICIPANT OBSERVATION | 169 |
CHAPTER 12 RESEARCHING AFFECT AND EMOTION | 182 |
CHAPTER 13 PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH | 198 |
CHAPTER 14 TEXTUAL ANALYSIS | 217 |
CHAPTER 15 INTERPRETING THE VISUAL | 233 |
CHAPTER 16 USING GEOTAGGED DIGITAL SOCIAL DATA IN GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH | 248 |
CHAPTER 17 RESEARCHING VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES | 270 |
CHAPTER 18 CRITICAL GIS | 285 |
CHAPTER 19 QUANTITATIVE MODELLING IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY | 302 |
SECTION THREE GENERATING AND WORKING WITH DATA IN PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY | 323 |
CHAPTER 20 MAKING OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS IN THE FIELD | 325 |
CHAPTER 29 ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT APPRAISAL AND VALUATION | 495 |
REPRESENTING VISUALISING AND INTERPRETING GEOGRAPHICAL DATA | 517 |
CHAPTER 30 MAKING USE OF SECONDARY DATA | 519 |
CHAPTER 31 USING STATISTICS TO DESCRIBE AND EXPLORE SPATIAL DATA | 537 |
CHAPTER 32 EXPLORING AND PRESENTING QUANTITATIVE DATA | 550 |
CHAPTER 33 CASE STUDY METHODOLOGY | 581 |
CHAPTER 34 MAPPING AND GRAPHICACY | 596 |
CHAPTER 35 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USING MINITAB AND SPSS | 620 |
CHAPTER 36 ORGANIZING CODING AND ANALYZING QUALITATIVE DATA | 647 |
CHAPTER 37 USING GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS GIS | 665 |
CHAPTER 38 VIDEO AUDIO AND TECHNOLOGYBASED APPLICATIONS | 684 |
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