Research into spatial influences on people’s everyday activities and experiences presents many conceptual and methodological complexities. Written by leading authorities, this book provides a comprehensive framework for collecting and analyzing reliable person–environment–behavior data in real-world settings that rarely resemble the controlled conditions described in typical texts. An array of research designs are illustrated in chapter-length examples addressing such compelling issues as spatial patterns of voting behavior, ways in which disabilities affect people’s travel and wayfinding, how natural and built environments evoke emotional responses, spatial factors in elementary teaching and learning, and more. A special chapter guides the student or beginning researcher to craft a successful research proposal.
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1. An Overview of Spatial and/or Environmental Influences in Human Activities and Experiences I. Comprehending Data Recording and Measurement to Generate Information in Scientific Inquiry2. Data and Measurement to Generate Information 3. Collecting Data and Generating Information in a Scientific Mode II. Collecting Data and Representing Information4. The Purpose of Collecting and Matching Data and Analysis5. Qualitative and Survey Approaches to Collecting Data and Generating Information6. Collecting Information from Sampled Populations Using Probability and Nonprobability Designs7. Extrapolating from Controlled Conditions to the Real World III. Activities in Environments 8. Modeling Social-Environmental Factors Associated with Spatial Patterns of Voter Support for Political Parties 9. Intellectually Challenged People Interacting with Their Environment10. Spatial Competence of Blind and Visually Impaired People When Performing Activities in Different Spaces IV. Activities and Spaces 11. Decision Process and Choice in the Residential Relocation of Retirees 12. Sex Roles and the Gendering of Activities and Spaces 13. Spatial Structural Influences on Activities in an Elementary Classroom Environment V. Experiences and Environments 14. Experiences in Everyday Environments 15. Aesthetic Experiences in Environments VI. Experiences and Spaces 16. Deriving Metropolitanwide Spatial Patterns of Perceived Quality-of-Life Dimensions 17. Reflecting the Nature of Cognitive Spaces from Perceived Relations 18. Modeling Group Conservation Perspectives VII. Planning Research: The Common Sense of a Research Proposal 19. Mapping a Strategic Plan for Research
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Douglas Amedeo is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He teaches courses in behavioral approaches to geographic issues and conducts research on the importance of space in environmental settings and affective responses to environments. Reginald G. Golledge is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He teaches courses on spatial and environmental cognition and conducts research in the areas of cognitive mapping and wayfinding, analytical behavioral geography, and spatial behavior. Robert J. Stimson is Professor of Geographical Sciences and Planning at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Director of the Urban and Regional Analysis Research Program, University of Queensland Social Research Center. He conducts research on human spatial behavior and urban and regional analysis, development, and planning.
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