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1. Research in Geography

2. Meaning of Research

3. What is Geography
 Geography is the study of places and the relationships
between people and their environments. Geographers
explore both the physical properties of Earth’s surface and
the human societies spread across it. They also examine
how human culture interacts with the natural
environment and the way that locations and places can
have an impact on people. Geography seeks to understand
where things are found, why they are there, and how they
develop and change over time.

4. What is research?
1.Research is an organized inquiry carried out to provide
information for solving problems. • It is the cornerstone of
every science.
2.` Research is the systematic process of collecting
and analyzing information to increase our
understanding of the world in general and of the
phenomenon under study in particular.

6. What is Geographic Research
Geographic research is the critical objective study,
investigation and explanation of specific cultural and
physical phenomenon. ... Basic research personnel
attempt to acquire data through experimentation by
describing and evaluating usefulness of theory for
observation of new principles and laws.

7. Why conduct research?
Students, professors, researchers, research centers, government,
practitioners, newspaper people, TV networks, market research
firms, schools, hospitals, social service, political parties, consulting
firms, HR departments, public interest organizations, insurance,
law firms conduct research as part of their jobs, to be better
informed, less biased decisions, in contrast to guessing, hunches,
intuition, and other personal experience.

8. Therefore, RESEARCH concerns with WHAT (facts and
conclusions) and HOW (scientific; critical components).
Research is a iterative process that eventually seeks to
explain or solve an identified problem.
1.research is a process of enquiry
2. Research is a Systematic and Methodical processes
3. Research always increase Kbnowledge

9. R- Rational way of thinking
E- Expert and exhaustive treatment
S- Search and Solution
E- Exactness
A-Analysis
R-Relationship of facts
C- Critical observation or careful
planning
H-Honesty and Hard Work

10. Purpose of Geographic Research
1.Development new insight into the a phenomenon
2. Review and Synthesized the existing knowledge
3.Investigate some existing Situation or problem
4. Offer solution of a problem
5.Construct a new procedure or system
6. Generate new knowledge

11. Types of research in
Geography

12. Descriptive Vs.
Analytical

13. Applied Vs. Fundamental
Research

14. Qualitative Vs. Quantitative
Research

15. Conceptual Vs. Empirical
Research

16. Cross sectional Vs.
Longitudinal Research

17. Field based Vs.
Virtual Research

18. Conclusion Oriented Vs. Decision
Research

19. Historical Research

20. Significance of Research in
Geography

21. 1. Geographic Research Contributions to
Scientific Understanding
Geography contributes to science as a part
of the broad, creative, multidisciplinary effort
to advance the frontiers of knowledge. In so
doing it offers significant insights into some
of the major questions facing the sciences,
related to the pursuit of knowledge both for
its own sake and for the sake of improving
society's well-being.

22. 2. Geographic Research integrate Places
Geography has produced a substantial
literature related to the challenges of
integration in place and the significance of
such integrative perspectives for scientific
understanding. Two examples
are environmental-societal dynamics and
the distinctiveness of place.

23. 3. Geographic Research integrate
population and Resource
Geographic research reconstructed
population-resource dynamics for a large
number of places throughout the world.

24. 4.Geographic Research direct the way of
sustainable population growth
Sustained population growth is not the norm at
sub global (regional) levels; given sufficient
time, locales and regions may display
significant declines in population.
These declines are typically associated with
political devolution.

25. 5.Geographic Research helps to identify the
distinctiveness of place
Geographic research on the distinctiveness of place
addresses a range of economic, political, and social
issues such as industrial agglomeration and regional
economic development, the role of place-based political
identities, places as foci for personal and societal
opportunities or constraints, and the cultural meaning of
the environment in which people live.

26. 6.Geographic research relevance different Issues for
Science and Society
Geographic research addressing integration in place has
put the discipline at the frontier of experimentation with
integration as a challenge for science. Geography's
experience with integration in place also has been fruitful
in providing insights to issues of interest to science at
large.

27. 7.Geographic research helps to mitigate natural
disaster
Geographers have applied systems theory to help
understand the complex interactions between
nature and society that are caused by natural
hazards, including multiple adjustments and
attendant feedbacks (Cutter, 1993).

28. 8Geographic research helps to understand
ecosystem stability and change
Geographers have also examined the
mechanisms of ecosystem stability and
change, especially human and other agents of
short-and long-term ecosystem change
(Zimmerer, 1994).

29. 9. Geographic research helps to understand
economic Change in the society and its impact on
society
A geographic perspective recognizes that economic
changes can create or exacerbate economic imbalances
across places, whether or not the economic system
overall is trending toward or away from equilibrium. A
particular concern of geographers is the implications of
economic change for different groups in society within a
place, especially for groups distinguished by class,
gender, and race. Related issues include the
composition of the work force as rooted in social forces
and potentials for cooperation versus conflict.

30. 10. Geographic research explain the Conflict and
Cooperation among different groups in society.
Geography's concerns with the integration of phenomena in
place and the positioning of one place with respect to others
are key to an understanding of context; they focus attention
on the importance of such matters as resources, land use,
and the distribution and movements of peoples. Geographic
work highlights the connections between social forces and
the material and spatial circumstances in which they are
embedded.