Key Methods in Geography

Nick Clifford is Professor and Head of Department at King’s College London. Dr. Meghan Cope is an urban social geographer. She is mainly interested in the ways that social, economic, political, and environmental processes influence cities and communities, as well as the ways that people′s everyday lives create meaningful spaces and places within, or even against, the larger-scale processes operating on them. Her focus has always been on social/spatial processes of marginalization and disempowerment, for example, through gender, race/ethnicity, class, youth, etc. She is especially motivated by issues such as employment, households and neighborhoods, welfare, public space, poverty, discrimination, and identity. She is also a qualitative researcher who uses ethnography and other methods to learn about the geographic meanings and processes that matter to marginalized groups. Over the past 10 years she has developed an associated interest in critical perspectives on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and have explored methods of combining qualitative research with GIS (Cope & Elwood, 2009). Thomas Gillespie teaches geography at UCLA.

An in-depth inquisition of the complex dynamic landscape associated with human and physical geography and their interactions, expertly articulated and packaged by an ecosystem of experts, key methods in geography is an ideal reference book for novice and experienced researchers. Faith Njoki Karanja - Geoinformation Expert

• Starting Points And PerspectivesGetting Started In Geographical Research: How This Book Can HelpHealth, Safety And Risk In The FieldOn Being Ethical In Geographical ResearchIdentifying And Reviewing The Key Literature For Your AssignmentEffective Research CommunicationFundamentals Of Mapping And GISDecolonial MethodsExploring Human And More-Than-Human GeographiesHistorical And Archival ResearchConducting Questionnaire SurveysSemi-Structured Interviews And Focus GroupsRespondent DiariesParticipant ObservationResearching Affect And EmotionMore-Than-Human Research MethodologiesTextual AnalysisInterpreting The VisualUsing Digital Social Data In Geographic ResearchGeoHumanities And Creative Research MethodsCritical GISQuantitative Modelling In Human GeographyExploring The Physical EnvironmentMaking Observations And Measurements In The FieldUncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) For Predicting, Visualizing, And Modelling Environmental ChangeGetting Information From The Past: Palaeoecological Studies Of Terrestrial EcosystemsNumerical Modelling: Understanding Explanation and Prediction in Physical GeographySimulation And Reduced Complexity ModelsRemote Sensing And Satellite Earth ObservationDigital Terrain AnalysisEnvironmental GISModels And Data In Biogeography And Landscape EcologyEnvironment And Sustainability: Environmental Auditing, Impact Assessment And Valuation RevisedGeographical Analysis: Interpreting, Visualising, And Representing Geographical DataMaking Use Of Secondary DataUsing Statistics To Describe And Explore Spatial DataExploring And Presenting Quantitative DataCase Study MethodologyMaking Sense Of Qualitative Data: Coding, Organizing, And AnalyzingVideo, Audio And Technology-Based ApplicationsWriting: An Embodied Spatial Practice of Scholarly SharingPerspectives On Research In PracticeEncountering The Digital In Human Geography ResearchDoing Engaged Scholarship: Why Methods Matter