Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science

The investigation ofthe interactions between human and physical systems poses unique conceptual, methodological, and practical challenges. This book establishes a spatial science framework for policymakers, social scientists, and environmental researchers as they explore and analyze complex problems. The authors provide guidance for scientists, writers, and students across a broad range offields on how totackle discipline-specific issues ofspace, place, and scale as they propose and conduct research in thespatial sciences. This practical textbook and overview blends plenty ofconcrete examples ofspatial research and case studies tofamiliarize readers withtheresearch process, demystifying and illustrating how it is actually done. Theappendix contains both completed and in-progress proposals forMA and PhD theses and dissertations, as well as successful research grants. By emphasizing research as a learning and experiential process, while providing students withtheencouragement and skills needed forsuccess in proposal writing, "Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science" can serve as a textbook for research-design or project-based courses at the upper-division undergraduate and graduate level.