Table of Contents

List of Figures viii

List of Tables xi

List of Boxes xiii

List of Exercises xv

Notes on Contributors xvii

Acknowledgments xx

1 Introduction 1
John Paul Jones III and Basil Gomez

Part I Theory and Methodology 7

2 Theorizing Our World 9
Ian Graham Ronald Shaw, Deborah P. Dixon, and John Paul Jones iii

3 Observing Our World 26
Bruce L. Rhoads and David Wilson

4 Measurement and Interpretation 41
Sent Visser and John Paul Jones iii

5 Operational Decisions 60
Andrew Herod and Kathleen C. Parker

6 Sampling Our World 77
Ryan R. Jensen and J. Matthew Shumway

Part II Collecting Data 91

7 Physical Landscapes 93
Michael J. Crozier, Ulrike Hardenbicker, and Basil Gomez

8 Climates 116
Julie A. Winkler

9 Vegetation 137
Thomas W. Gillespie and Glen M. MacDonald

10 Remote Sensing 155
Douglas A. Stow

11 Secondary Data 173
Kevin St Martin and Marianna Pavlovskaya

12 Social Surveys, Interviews, and Focus Groups 194
Anna J. Secor

13 Ethnography and Participant Observation 206
Debbie Allsop, Hannah Allen, Helen Clare, Ian Cook, Hayley Raxter, Christina Upton, and Alice Williams

14 Cultural Landscapes 222
Richard H. Schein

15 Human-Environment Field Study 241
Paul F. Robbins

Part III Representing and Analyzing 257

16 Maps and Diagrams 259
Stephen P. Hanna

17 Descriptive Statistics 279
Sent Visser and John Paul Jones iii

18 Explanatory Statistics 297
Sent Visser and John Paul Jones iii

19 Mathematical Analysis 315
Sandra Lach Arlinghaus

20 Regional Analysis 335
Gordon F. Mulligan

21 Modeling 354
Yvonne Martin and Stefania Bertazzon

22 Geographic Information Systems 376
Michael F. Goodchild

23 Analyzing Meaning 392
Deborah P. Dixon

Part IV Obligations 409

24 The Politics and Ethics of Research 411
David M. Smith

25 Writing It Up 424
Dydia DeLyser

Glossary 437

Index 451

About the Author

Basil Gomez is an Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Geography Compass. He has published widely across a numberof journals. John Paul Jones III is Professor of Geography andDirector of the School of Geography and Development at theUniversity of Arizona in Tucson. He was the co-founder andco-director of the Committee on Social Theory at the University ofKentucky, where he taught from 1986 to 2003. He is co-editor of thejournal Dialogues in Human Geography.

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