SECTION ONE: PLANNING A RESEARCH PROJECT: GETTING STARTED AND PUTTING YOUR RESEARCH INTO CONTEXT // 1 // 1 Getting Started in Geographical Research: How This Book Can Help 3 // Nick Clifford, Meghan Cope, Tom Gillespie, Shaun French and Gill Valentine // 2 Health, Safety and Risk in the Field 19 // Joanna Bullard // 3 On Being Ethical in Geographical Research 30 // Iain Hay // 4 How to Conduct a Literature Search 44 // Mick Healey and Ruth L. Healey // 5 Effective Research Communication 62 // Jennifer Hill and Helen Walkington // 6 Working in Different Cultures and Different Languages 88 // Fiona M. Smith // SECTION TWO: GENERATING AND WORKING WITH // DATA IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 109 // 7 Historical and Archival Research 111 // Ruth Craggs // 8 Conducting Questionnaire Surveys 129 // Sara L. McLafferty // 9 Semi-structured Interviews and Focus Groups 143 // Robyn Longhurst // 10 Respondent Diaries 157 // Alan Latham // 11 Participant and Non-participant Observation 169 // Eric Laurier // 12 Researching Affect and Emotion 182 // Ben Anderson // 13 Participatory Action Research 198 // Myrna M. Breitbart // 14 Textual Analysis 217 // Marcus A. Doel // 15 Interpreting the Visual 233 // Liz Roberts // 16 Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research 248 // Ate Poorthuis, Matthew Zook, Taylor Shelton, Mark Graham // and Monica Stephens // 17 Researching Virtual Communities 270 // Mike Crang and Siti Mazidah Haji Mohamad // 18 Critical GIS 285 // Matthew W. Wilson // 19 Quantitative
Modelling in Human Geography 302 // Alan Marshall // SECTION THREE: GENERATING AND WORKING WITH // DATA IN PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY 323 // 20 Making Observations and Measurements in the Field 325 // Shelly A. Rayback // 21 Making Observations and Measurements in the Laboratory 336 // Scott A. Mensing // 12 Getting Information from the Past: Palaeoecological Studies // of Terrestrial Ecosystems 345 // Laura N. Stahle and Cathy Whitlock // 23 Numerical Modelling: Understanding Explanation and Prediction // in Physical Geography 373 // Stuart N. Lane // 24 Simulation and Reduced Complexity Models 400 // James D.A. Millington // 25 Remote Sensing and Satellite Earth Observation 423 // Martin J. Wooster, Thomas Smith and Nick A. Drake // 26 Digital Terrain Analysis 439 // Peter L. Guth // 27 Environmental GIS 456 // Thomas W. Gillespie // 28 Models and Data in Biogeography and Landscape Ecology 470 // George P. Malanson and Benjamin W. Heumann // 29 Environmental Audit, Appraisal and Valuation 495 // Peter Glaves // SECTION FOUR: GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS: REPRESENTING, // VISUALISING AND INTERPRETING GEOGRAPHICAL DATA 517 // 30 Making Use of Secondary Data 519 // Naomi Tyrrell // 31 Using Statistics to Describe and Explore Spatial Data 537 // Eric Delmelle // 32 Exploring and Presenting Quantitative Data 550 // Richard Field // 33 Case Study Methodology 581 // Liz Taylor // 34 Mapping and Graphicacy 596 // Chris Perkins // 35 Statistical Analysis Using MINITAB and SPSS Stewart
Barr // 620 // x // Key Methods in Geography // 36 Organizing, Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data Meghan Cope and Hilda Kurtz // 37 Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Nigel Walford // 38 Video, Audio and Technology-based Applications Bradley L. Garrett // Index