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