Key Methods in Geography by Nicholas Clifford

Key Methods in Geography by Nicholas Clifford

Covering both qualitative and quantitative methods,this is a new edition ofthe essential companion for human and physical geography students. The book has12 brand new chapters and is now supported by video introductions and free journal articles.

This excellent book remains the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to research methods in Geography todayThe new edition will be essential reading for any student undertaking independent research as part of their degree
-- Noel Castree

A new generation of scholars explain how to get started with geographical research. Geography is an academic subject that rapidly evolves. What was in vogue on year can soon be passé. However, Key Methods in Geography provides a mixture that both preserves the best of the past and introduces what is both more new and most promising. Unnecessary verbiage is out – clarity is in. Practical, accessible careful and interesting, this greatly updated and revised volume brings the subject up-to-date and explains in bite sized chunks the hows and whys of modern day geographical study that begins to brings together physical and human approaches again in a new synthesis. 

-- Danny Dorling
This collection is a valuable resource for geography students and researchers at all levels, in human geography, physical geography, and GIScience. It stands apart from many methods texts by speaking to the complete research process – from conceptualizing and designing geographical research, to collecting and analyzing many different forms of evidence, to representing results and finding in diverse ways. The volume is noteworthy in the breadth of methods it includes, spanning classic approaches that have been foundational to geographical scholarship and some of the discipline’s newest and most innovative methodological practices.
-- Sarah Elwood

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.  Shaun French is Associate Professor in Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham.

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ISBN 13	9781446298602
ISBN 10	1446298604
Title	Key Methods in Geography
Author	Nicholas Clifford
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2016-05-31
Number of pages	752
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