Mark Kanazawa

Research Methods for Environmental Studies (eBook, ePUB)

A Social Science Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research questions that can be posed, calling for a textbook that covers a broad swath of approaches to conducting research with potentially many different kinds of evidence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000896602
• Artikelnr.: 68149257

Autorenporträt

Mark Kanazawa is the Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics at Carleton College, where he has served as both Chair of the Economics Department and Director of Environmental Studies. He regularly teaches courses in environmental economics, econometrics, and research methods for environmental studies. He has also authored two other books: Natural Resources and the Environment (2021) and Golden Rules (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Introduction to research and research methods 1 Introduction to research methods in environmental studies
2 A brief history of knowledge and argumentation
3 General research design principles
4 Ethical issues in environmental research
PART II Quantitative research 5 General principles of quantitative research
6 Quantitative data and sampling
7 Basic quantitative methods and analysis
8 More on hypothesis testing
9 More advanced methods of quantitative analysis
10 Spatial analysis and GIS
PART III Qualitative research 11 General principles of qualitative research
12 Coding for qualitative analysis
13 The case study method
14 The ethnographic approach
15 Actor-network theory
16 Environmental discourse analysis
17 Participatory action research
18 Mixed methods
PART IV Data collection 19 Data collection I: Principles of surveying
20 Data collection II: Interviewing
21 Data collection III: Focus groups
PART V Proposal writing 22 Writing a research proposal