Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science Second Edition /

• 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: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Human geography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Human Geography.

The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers 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-specif...

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
• Theses I and II: Human Systems-Qualitative
• 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
• Index.