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Conducting research in conservation : social science methods and practice
- Title
- Conducting research in conservation : social science methods and practice / by Helen Newing [and others].
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Description
- xxii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other contributors
- Newing, Helen.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-366) and index.
- Contents
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- Social science research in conservation
- Defining the research topic
- Developing the methodology
- Sampling
- Participants observation
- Qualitative interviews and focus groups
- Questionnaires
- Documenting local environmental knowledge and change
- Community workshops and PRA toolbox
- Participatory mapping
- Fieldwork with local communities
- Preparing for fieldwork and collecting and managing data in the field
- The role of the researcher
- Ethical issues in research
- Data processing and analysis
- Processing and analysis of qualitative data
- Quantitative analysis: descriptive statistics
- Qualitative analysis: inferential statistics
- Writing up, dissemination and follow-up
- Writing up the report
- Final tasks: dissemination and follow-up.
- Summary
- "Conducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinary field of environmental conservation. The first section on planning a research project includes chapters on the need for social science research in conservation, defining a research topic, methodology, and sampling. Section two focuses on practical issues in carrying out fieldwork with local communities, from fieldwork preparation and data collection to the relationships between the researcher and the study community. Section three provides an in-depth focus on a range of social science methods including standard qualitative and quantitative methods such as participant observation, interviewing and questionnaires, and more advanced methods, such as ethnobiological methods for documenting local environmental knowledge and change, and participatory methods such as the 'PRA' toolbox. Section four then demonstrates how to analyze social science data qualitatively and quantitatively; and the final section outlines the writing-up process and what should happen after the end of the formal research project ..."--Publisher description.
- Subject headings
- Environmental sciences. Environmental protection. Conservation of natural resources--Government policy.
- ISBN
- 9780415457910 (hardback) 0415457912 (hardback) 9780415457927 (pbk.) 0415457920 (pbk.) 9780203846452 0203846451