Key methods in geography

Planning a research project: getting started and putting your research into context

Getting started in geographical research: how this book can help / Nick Clifford, Meghan Cope, Tom Gillespie, Shaun French, and Gill Valentine

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 M. Smith

Generating and working with data in human geography

Historical and archival research / Ruth Craggs

Conducting questionnaire surveys / Sara L. McLafferty

Semi-structured interviews 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 M. Breitbart

Textual analysis / Marcus A. Doel

Interpreting the visual / Liz Roberts

Using geotagged digital social data in geographic research / Ate Poorthuis, Matthew Zook, Taylor Shelton, Mark Graham, and Monica Stephens

Researching virtual communities / Mike Crang and Siti Mazidah Haji Mohamad

Critical GIS / Matthew W. Wilson

Quantitative modeling in human geography / Alan Marshall

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: palaeoecological studies of terrestrial ecosystems / Laura N. Stahle and Cathy Whitlock

Numerical modeling: understanding explanation and prediction in physical geography / Stuart N. Lane

Simulation and reduced complexity models / James D.A. Millington

Remote sensing and satellite earth observation / Martin J. Wooster, Thomas Smith and Nick A. Drake

Digital terrain analysis / Peter L. Guth

Environmental GIS / Thomas W. Gillespie

Models and data in biogeography and landscape ecology / George P. Malanson and Benjamin W. Heumann

Environmental audit, appraisal and valuation / Peter Glaves

Geographical analysis: representing, visualizing, and interpreting geograhical 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 / Stewart Barr

Organizing, coding and analyzing qualitative data / Meghan Cope and Hilda Kurtz

Using geographical information systems (GIS) / Nigel Walford

Video, audio and technology-based applications / Bradley L. Garrett.