Graduate Research Methods

Department of Geography

Reading List (Subject to Change)

September 17:

Davis, W.M. (1902).Field Work in Physical Geography, I. Journal of Geography, 1 (1), 17-24.
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Davis, W. M. (1902).Field Work in Physical Geography, II. Journal of Geography, 1 (2), 62-69.
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Goudie, A.S. (1986). The Integration of Human and Physical Geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 11(4), 454-458.
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Katz, C. (1994). Playing the field: Questions of fieldwork in geography. Professional Geographer, 46(1), 67-72.
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Sui, D. Z. (2004). GIS, Cartography, and the “Third Culture”: Geographic Imaginations in the Computer Age. The Professional Geographer, 56(1), 62-72.
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September 24:

Curran, P. J.(1987) Review Article Remote sensing methodologies and geography. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 8:(9), 1255 – 1275.
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Haines-Young, R.H. and J.R. Petch (1980). The Challenge of Critical Rationalism for Methodology in Physical Geography. Progress in Physical Geography, 4(1): 63-77.
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Johnston, R.J. (1983). Resource analysis, resource management and the integration of physical and human geography. Progress in Physical Geography March 1983 7: 127-146.
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Sheppard E, 2001, Quantitative geography: representations, practices, and possibilities. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 19(5) 535 – 554.
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October 1:

Clifford, N. (2009). Globalization: a Physical Geography perspective. Progress in Physical Geography, 33(1), 5-16.
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Griffith, D. A. (2008). Ethical Considerations in Geographic Research: What Especially Graduate Students Need to Know. Ethics, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography, 11(3), 237-252.
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Hay, I. (1998). From Code to conduct. Professional ethics in New Zealand geography. New Zealand Geographer 54(2): 21-27.
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Mitchell, B. & Draper, D. (1983). ETHICS IN GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH. The Professional Geographer, 35(1), 9-17.
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Sheppard, S. R. J. and Cizek, P. (2009). The ethics of Google Earth: Crossing thresholds from spatial data to landscape visualisation. Journal of Environmental Management, 90(6), 2102-2117.
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Slonecker,E.T., Shaw, D.M. and Lillesand, T.M. (1998) Emerging Legal and Ethical Issues in Advanced Remote Sensing Technology. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 64 (6), 589-595.
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Staeheli, L. A. and Mitchell, D. (2005). The complex politics of relevance in geography. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95: 357-372.
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