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Key Methods in Geography

Third Edition
by Nicholas Clifford, Meghan Cope, Thomas Gillespie and Shaun French

Student Resources

  1. Getting Started in Geographical Research
    • Further Reading
  2. Health, Safety and Risk in the Field
    • Further Reading
  3. On Being Ethical In Geographical Research
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  4. How to Conduct a Literature Search
    • Further Reading
  5. Effective Research Communication
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  6. Working in Different Cultures and Different Languages
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  7. Historical and Archival Research
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  8. Conducting Questionnaire Surveys
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  9. Semi-Structured Interviews and Focus Groups
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
    • Supplementary Material
  10. Respondent Diaries
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  11. Participant and Non-Participant Observation
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  12. Researching Affect and Emotion
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  13. Participatory Action Research
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  14. Textual Analysis
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  15. Interpreting the Visual
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  16. Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  17. Researching Virtual Communities
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  18. Critical GIS
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Supplementary Material
  19. Quantitative Modelling in Human Geography
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  20. Making Observations and Measurements in the Field
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  21. Making Observations And Measurements in the Laboratory
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  22. Getting Information from the Past: Paleoecological Studies of Terrestrial Ecosystems
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  23. Numerical Modelling: Understanding Explanation and Prediction in Physical Geography
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  24. Simulation and Reduced Complexity Models
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  25. Remote Sensing and Satellite Earth Observation
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  26. Digital Terrain Analysis
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  27. Environmental GIS
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  28. Models and Data in Biogeography and Landscape Ecology
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  29. Environmental Audit, Appraisal and Value
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  30. Making Use of Secondary Data
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
    • Supplementary Material
  31. Using Statistics to Describe and Explore Data
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Supplementary Material
  32. Exploring and Presenting Quantitative Data
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
    • Supplementary Material
  33. Case Study Methodology
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  34. Mapping and Graphicacy
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  35. Statistical Analysis using MINITAB And SPSS
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
    • Supplementary Material
  36. Organizing, Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  37. Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  38. Video, Audio and Technology-based Applications
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  • Study Skills

Further Reading

Further reading links to supplement your studies.

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  • MacArthur (1972) provides a nice background into quantitative geography and ecology.
    MacArthur, R.H. 1972. Geographical Ecology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Online resources

Platforms

  • R
  • STELLA
  • NetLogo

Organismal Databases

  • GBIF
  • IDigBio
  • TRY
  • DRYAD

Landcover Databases

  • The Global Land Cover Facility
  • Global Land Cover Share
  • The Global Rural‒Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)
  • The John Wesley Powell Center Working Group at USGS

Soils Databases

  • Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD)
  • Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for Biogeochemical Dynamics

Terrain Databases

  • NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (STRM) 
  • METI/NASA’s ASTER Global Digital Elevation Map (GDEM)
  • USGS’s Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data, 2010 (GMTED2010)

Surface Hydrological Databases

  • HydroSHEDS
  • Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD)
  • Global Reservoir and Dam dataset (GRanD)
  • NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)

Biogeochemistry Databases

  • Fluxnet
  • Global Fertilizer and Manure dataset

Climate Databases

  • PRISM
  • DAYMET
  • NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis project
  • CliMod at the MVZ GIS Portal

Ocean Databases

  • NASA’s Ocean Biology Processing Group
  • NASA’s Physical Oceanography DAAC

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