Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science

• Main Authors: Gatrell, Jay D. (Author), Bierly, Gregory D. (Author), Jensen, Ryan R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Geography.; Geology.; Geographical information systems.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Ecotoxicology.; Geography, general.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

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, pla...

Table of Contents:

• Spatial Science and Its Traditions
• Literature Reviews
• Research Questions
• Data and Methods in Spatial Science
• Graduate Degree Proposals
• Grants and Grant Writing
• Disseminating Research
• Reflections on Proposal Writing in Spatial Science
• Model Proposals
• Thesis I: Human Systems-Qualitative
• Thesis II: Human Systems
• Dissertation I: Human Systems
• Dissertation II: Geo-Techniques
• Dissertation III: Physical Systems
• Extramural Grant I: Research
• Extramural Grant II: Instrumentation
• Extramural III: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
• Intramural Grants.