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urn:uuid:2c8012d8-3cfb-401b-bf6f-029babc64d70 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2c8012d8-3cfb-401b-bf6f-029babc64d70 15 9781805113683 06 10.11647/OBP.0418 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 10 01 02 1 Critical Physical Geography: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nature, Power and Politics 01 01 The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research 1 B01 21 0000-0001-5335-9058 Rebecca Lave 2 B01 21 0000-0002-6077-6076 Stuart Lane First edition. 01 eng 00 644 03 B2 Anthropology 10 SCI026000 93 TQ B2 Environmental Studies 93 RNF 10 SCI043000 10 SCI019000 B2 Science: Applied Science 93 YPMP6 B2 Politics and Sociology 10 REF020000 01 06 03 00 <p>Despite ongoing debates about its origins, the Anthropocene—a new epoch characterized by significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems—is widely acknowledged. Our environment is increasingly a product of interacting biophysical and social forces, shaped by climate change, colonial legacies, gender norms, hydrological processes, and more. Understanding these intricate interactions requires a mixed-methods approach that combines qualitative and quantitative, biophysical and social research.</p><p>However, mixed-methods environmental research remains rare, hindered by academic boundaries, limited training, and the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration. Time, funding, and the integration of diverse data further complicate this research, whilst the dynamics and ethics of interdisciplinary teams add another layer of complexity.</p><p>Despite these challenges, mixed-methods research offers a more robust and ultimately transformative understanding of environmental questions. This Field Guide aims to inspire and equip researchers to undertake such studies. Organized like a recipe book, it assists researchers in the preparation of their field work, as well as offering entry points to key methods and providing examples of successful mixed-methods projects.</p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars wishing to tackle environmental research in a more holistic manner, spanning ‘sister’ disciplines such as anthropology, statistics, political science, public health, archaeology, geography, history, ecology, and Earth science.</p> 04 00 Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Introduction to the Field Guide Section 1: Building your research kitchen 2. Introduction to building the research ‘kitchen’ 3. Frames, disciplines and mixing methods in environmental research 4. Mixed methods in tension: lessons for and from the research process 5. Expanding research ethics for inclusive and transdisciplinary research 6. Embracing and enacting critical and constructive approaches to teaching Critical Physical Geography 7. Integrating ethnographic and physical science methods in interdisciplinary research projects: Reflections on pedagogy and practice for ‘deep interdisciplinary’ engagement within the Sajag-Nepal Project 8. The environmental impacts of fieldwork: making an environmental impact statement 9. Inclusive practices in fieldwork 10. Fieldwork safety planning and risk management Section 2: Research Recipes Inspiring examples of mixed methods environmental research 11. Introduction to the research recipes 12. On the dialogue between ethnographic field work and statistical modelling 13. Revealing the social histories of ancient savannas and intact forests using a historical ecology approach in Central Africa 14. The interface between hydrological modelling and political ecology 15. ‘A hydrologist and a rhetorician walk into a workshop,’ or How we learned to collaborate on a decade of mixed methods river research across the humanities and biophysical sciences 16. Using mixed methods to confront disparities in public health interventions in urban community gardens 17. Space and place in participatory arts-based research 18. Antarctic mosaic: Mixing methods and metaphors in the McMurdo Dry Valleys 19. Engaging remote sensing and ethnography to seed alternative landscape stories and scripts 20. Mixing geoarchaeology, geohistory and ethnology to reconstruct landscape changes on the Longue Durée Section 3: Introduction to the List of Ingredients 21. Introduction to the list of ingredients 22. Archival methods 23. Arts-based environmental research 24. Case studies 25. Descriptive statistics 26. Environmental modelling 27. Focus groups 28. Geochronological Methods 29. Historical ecology 30. Hydraulic modelling 31. Hydrological modelling 32. Interviews: Structured, semi-structured and open-ended 33. Oral history 34. Participant observation and ethnography 36. Participatory methods 37. Q method 38. Sampling 39. (Critical) Satellite Remote Sensing 40. Social network analysis 41. Soil toxicological analysis 42. Statistical inference 43. Survey and questionnaire methods 44. Textual analysis 45. Uncrewed airborne systems Contributing authors Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20250225 2025 06 15 9781805113669 06 15 9781805113676 06 15 9781805113683 06 15 9781805113706 06 15 9781805113690 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0418.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0418 99 01