Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science

✍ Scribed by Jay D. Gatrell Ph.D., Gregory D. Bierly Ph.D., Ryan R. Jensen Ph.D. (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Edition: XVI
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting geographers 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 spatial sciences. This practical textbook and overview blends plenty of concrete examples of geographic 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 (some including advisor feedback) 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 .

✦ Table of Contents

Spatial Science and Its Traditions....Pages 1-10
Literature Reviews....Pages 11-25
Research Questions....Pages 27-36
Data and Methods in Spatial Science....Pages 37-47
Graduate Degree Proposals....Pages 49-53
Grants and Grant Writing....Pages 55-64
Disseminating Research....Pages 65-76
Reflections on Proposal Writing in Spatial Science....Pages 77-78
Model Proposals....Pages 79-79
Thesis I: Human Systems-Qualitative....Pages 81-89
Thesis II: Human Systems....Pages 91-106
Dissertation I: Human Systems....Pages 107-121
Dissertation II: Geo-Techniques....Pages 123-142
Dissertation III: Physical Systems....Pages 143-158
Extramural Grant I: Research....Pages 159-179
Extramural Grant II: Instrumentation....Pages 181-195
Extramural III: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant....Pages 197-206
Intramural Grants....Pages 207-214

✦ Subjects

Geography (general); Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Geology; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Ecotoxicology