Select SAGE journal articles are available to give you more insight into chapter topics. These are also an ideal resource to help support your literature reviews, dissertations and assignments.

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Poon, J.P.H. (2005) ‘Quantitative methods: Not positively positivist’, Progress in Human Geography, 29 (6): 766–72.

This paper provides a discussion of the philosophical underpinnings of quantitative methods within Geography.

O’Sullivan, D. (2008) ‘Geographical information science: Agent-based models’, Progress in Human Geography, 32 (4): 541–50.

This paper gives a flavour of the use of agent based models within Geography, the challenges involved in using agent-based models and the ways in which agent-based models might be developed in future research.

Curtis, S. and Riva, M. (2010) ‘Health geographies I: Complexity theory and human health’, Progress in Human Geography, 34 (4): 215–23.

This paper provides an excellent account of the use of quantitative methods to understand the complex drivers of spatial health inequalities including the increasing role of interdisciplinary research strategies.