Key methods in geography. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Editors: Clifford, N. J (Nicholas J.); Cope, Meghan; Gillespie, Thomas W; French, Shaun
• Contents: SECTION ONE: PLANNING A RESEARCH PROJECT: GETTING STARTED AND PUTTING YOUR RESEARCH INTO CONTEXT; Getting Started in Geographical Research: how this book can help - Nicholas Clifford, Shaun French, Meghan Cope and Thomas Gillespie; Health, Safety and Risk in the Field - Joanna Bullard; On Being Ethical in Geographical Research - Iain Hay; How to Conduct a Literature Search - Mick Healey and Ruth L. Healey; Effective Research Communication - Jennifer Hill and Helen Walkington; Working in different cultures and different languages - Fiona Smith; SECTION TWO: GENERATING AND WORKING WITH DATA IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; Historical and Archival Research - Ruth Craggs; Conducting questionaire surveys - Sara L. McLafferty; Semi-structured interview and focus groups - Robyn Longhurst; Respondent Diaries - Alan Latham; Participant and non-participant observation - Eric Laurier; Researching Affect and Emotion - Ben Anderson; Participatory Action Research - Myrna Breitbart; Textual Analysis - Marcus Doel; Interpreting the Visual - Liz Roberts; Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research - Ate Poorthuis, Matthew Zook, Taylor Shelton, Mark Graham & Monica Stephens; Researching Virtual Communities - Mike Crang & Siti Haji Bin Mohamed; Critical GIS - Matthew W. Wilson; Quantitative modelling in human geography - Alan Marshall; SECTION THREE: GENERATING AND WORKING WITH DATA IN PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY; Making Observations and Measurements in the Field - Shelly A. Rayback; Making Observations and Measurements in the Laboratory - Scott A. Mensing; Getting information from the past: Paleoecological studies of terrestrial ecosystems - Laura N. Stahle and Cathy Whitlock; Numerical modelling: Understanding explanation and prediction in physical geography - Stuart Lane; Simulation and reduced complexity models - James D. A. Millington; Remote Sensing and Satellite Earth Observation - Martin Wooster, Nicholas Drake & Tom Smith; Digital Terrain Analysis - Peter L. Guth; Environmental GIS - Thomas Gillespie; Models and Data in Biogeography and Landscape Ecology - George P. Malanson and Benjamin W. Heumann; Environmental audit, appraisal and valuation - Peter Glaves; SECTION FOUR: GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS: REPRESENTING, VISUALISING AND INTERPRETING GEOGRAPHICAL DATA; Making use of secondary data - Naomi Tyrrell; Using Statistics to Describe and Explore Spatial Data - Eric Delmelle; Exploring and presenting quantitative data - Richard Field; Case Study Methodology - Liz Taylor; Mapping and Graphicacy - Chris Perkins; Statistical analysis using MINITAB and SPSS - Stuart Barr; Organizing, Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data - Meghan Cope & Hilda Kurtz; Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) - Nigel Walford; Video, Audio & Technology-based Applications - Brad Garrett;
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 910.721; Geography -- Research -- Methodology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781473908963
• Related ISBNs: 9781446298589; 9781446298602
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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