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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers pose unique conceptual, methodological, and practical complications when ‘doing research’. Graduate students in a broad range of related fields need to learn how to tackle the discipline-specific issues of space, place, and scale as they propose and perform research in the spatial sciences. This practical textbook and overview blends plenty of concrete examples of spatial research and case studies to familiarize readers with the research process as it demystifies and exemplifies how to really do it. The appendix contains both completed and in-progress proposals for MA and PhD theses and dissertations. Emphasizing research as a learning and experiential process while providing students with the encouragement and skills needed for success in proposal writing, "Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science" can serve as a textbook for graduate-level research-design courses, as well as for undergraduate-level project-based spatial science courses.
Keywords: proposal writing, grant writing, research, geography, spatial science
Authors and Affiliations
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, Department of Earth and Environmental Sy, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA
Jay D. Gatrell, Gregory D. Bierly
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Dept. Geography, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
Ryan R. Jensen
About the authors
Prior to coming to ISU, he held the position of Assistant Professor of Geography at Wright State University and served as a Faculty Associate at the WSU Center for Urban and Public Affairs during the 1999-2000 academic year. He earned a Ph.D. in geography from West Virginia University, M.A. in geography at The University of Toledo, and a B.S., magna cum laude, in political science from Eastern Michigan University. While in graduate school, he served as a teaching assistant (1994-1995 UT, 1996-1997 WVU), GIS research assistant/intern (1995-1996, UT GIS Center), and research assistant/associate for WV EPSCoR program (1997-1999).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science
Book Subtitle: Second Edition
Authors: Jay D. Gatrell, Gregory D. Bierly, Ryan R. Jensen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2281-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2280-4Published: 16 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9345-3Published: 26 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2281-1Published: 25 November 2011
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 218
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional/Spatial Science, Human Geography