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Qualitative geography is a subfield and methodological approach to geography focusing on nominal data, descriptive information, and the subjective and interpretive aspects of how humans experience and perceive the world.^[2]^[1] Often, it is concerned with understanding the lived experiences of individuals and groups and the social, cultural, and political contexts in which those experiences occur. Thus, qualitative geography is traditionally placed under the branch of human geography; however, technical geographers are increasingly directing their methods toward interpreting, visualizing, and understanding qualitative datasets, and physical geographers employ nominal qualitative data as well as quanitative.^[3]^[1] Furthermore, there is increased interest in applying approaches and methods that are generally viewed as more qualitative in nature to physical geography, such as in critical physical geography.^[4] While qualitative geography is often viewed as the opposite of quantitative geography, the two sets of techniques are increasingly used to complement each other.^[2]^[5]^[4] Qualitative research can be employed in the scientific process to start the observation process, determine variables to include in research, validate results, and contextualize the results of quantitative research through mixed-methods approaches.^[3]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Approaches

Several scientific fields/subfields created or modified and applied specific concepts, theories, methods, principles/laws, techniques/technologies, etc. so to propose specific interdisciplinary approaches for addressing qualitative research-questions of geography.^{[citation needed]} Qualitative geography is the interdisciplinary field of geography gathering these proposed interdisciplinary-approaches from:

Concept of place

Geography considers place as one of its most significant and complicated concepts, and describing a place is something that qualitative methods are absolutely necessary to accomplish.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12] When referring to human geography, place is a combination of the geographical coordinates of a location, the activities that take place there (past, present, and future), and the interpretations that human individuals and groups assigned to that space. This can be highly intricate because people may have different uses and perceptions of the exact location at different times. Moreover, places are not isolated entities and have complex spatial connections, as geography is interested in how an area is positioned relative to all other locations.^[13]^[14] Therefore, geography includes all spatial phenomena at a particular site, the various meanings and uses attributed to it, and how it affects and is affected by all other locations on the planet.^[11]^[12] While quantitative methods can describe spatial coordinates, the concept of place is, in many ways, non-quantifiable. Thus, while quantitative methods are incredibly useful in an understanding of space, qualitative methods are essential.

Methods

Qualitative geography is descriptive rather than numerical or statistical in nature.^[6]^[15] Qualitative geography involves methods such as ethnography, interviews, and participant observation to gather data and make sense of the complexity and diversity of human geography.^[2]^[8] It emphasizes the importance of subjectivity, reflexivity, and interpretation in research. Qualitative geography aims to produce rich, detailed accounts of the social and cultural landscapes in which people live. Qualitative research is often exploratory and descriptive, emphasizing the importance of subjectivity, reflexivity, and interpretation. While qualitative methods are often viewed as opposite to quantitative methods, there is an increased emphasis in geography on mixed methods approaches that employ both. Increasingly, technical geographers are exploring GIS methods applied to qualitative datasets.^[6]^[3]^[16]

Qualitative cartography

Qualitative cartography employs many of the same software and techniques as quantitative.^[16] It may be employed to inform on map practices, or to visualize perspectives and ideas that are not strictly quantitative in nature.^[16]^[6] Examples of common qualitative information mapped include Chorochromatic map of nominal data, such as land use and land cover.^[1] In such cases, literature suggests using hue, rather than saturation, for displaying qualitative map topics.^[1]

Qualitative cartography can be used as art to communicate concepts not necessarily tied to spatial coordinates or to demonstrate the impacts, limitations, and implications of cartography on diverse groups of people.^[17]

Qualitative methods are employed by geographers seeking to improve cartographic practices by understanding how subjective cartographic choices impact how data is understood by users.^[16]

Ethnography

Ethnographical research techniques are used by human geographers.^[18] In cultural geography, there is a tradition of employing qualitative research techniques, also used in anthropology and sociology. Participant observation and in-depth interviews provide human geographers with qualitative data.

Interviews

Geographers can employ interviews to gather data and insights from individuals or groups about their experiences, perceptions, and opinions related to geographic phenomena.^[8]^[19] Interviews can be conducted in various formats, including face-to-face, telephone, online, or written.^[2]^[8] To employ interviews in research, geographers typically follow a structured or semi-structured format with questions or topics to guide the conversation.^[8] These questions elicit specific information about the research topic while allowing participants to share their personal experiences and insights.^[19] Geographers also often use open-ended questions to encourage participants to provide more detailed and nuanced responses.^[8]

Geopoetics

Geopoetics is a discipline that combines geography and poetry to explore, contextualize, and communicate geographic concepts, research, and phenomena.^[20] Geopoetics can be viewed as a methodology in itself, but is increasingly used as a mixed methods tool to explain the implications of quantitative geographic research and phenomena.^[20]^[21] Topics addressed by geopoetics often include impacts of the anthropocene, such as climate change and environmental exploitation.^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]

Criticisms

One of the primary criticisms of qualitative geography is its lack of generalizability.^[2]^[27] The findings of qualitative geography research are often based on small sample sizes, specific cases, or small-scale phenomena, making it challenging to generalize the results to larger populations or areas or capture larger patterns and trends. The data often rely on the research participants' unique circumstances and experiences, making qualitative research studies challenging to replicate. This makes strictly controlling variables, systematic data collection, and analysis procedures challenging. Finally, qualitative geographic research often relies heavily on the researcher's subjective interpretation of the data, which can introduce potential bias into the study. The researcher's background, experiences, and assumptions can influence their interpretation of the data. Ultimately, these factors of qualitative geographic lead some critics to argue that qualitative research lacks the rigor and objectivity of quantitative analysis. This can limit the applicability of the study to other researchers and policymakers.

Influential geographers

Carl O. Sauer (1889–1975) – cultural geographer.
David Harvey (born 1935) – Marxist geographer and author of theories on spatial and urban geography, winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
Doreen Massey (1944–2016) – scholar in the space and places of globalization and its pluralities; winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
Edward Soja (1940–2015) – worked on regional development, planning, and governance and coined the terms Synekism and Postmetropolis; winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
Eric Magrane – Influential geographer in the geographic subfield of geopoetics.
Mei-Po Kwan (born 1962) - geographer that coined the Uncertain geographic context problem and the neighborhood effect averaging problem.
Nigel Thrift (born 1949) – originator of non-representational theory.
Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845–1918) – founder of the French school of geopolitics, wrote the principles of human geography.
Walter Christaller (1893–1969) – human geographer and inventor of Central place theory.
Yi-Fu Tuan (1930–2022) – Chinese-American scholar credited with starting Humanistic Geography as a discipline.

Publications

Main category: Geography Journals

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Brewer, Cynthia (1994). "Color use guidelines for mapping and visualization". In MacEachren, A.M.; Taylor, D.R. Fraser (eds.). Visualization in Modern Cartography. Elsevier. pp. 123–134. ISBN 1483287920. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e DeLyser, Dydia; Herbert, Steve; Aitken, Stuart; Crang, Mike; McDowell, Linda (November 2009). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography (1 ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781412919913. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Haidu, Ionel (2016). "What is Technical Geography – a letter from the editor". Geographia Technica. 11: 1–5. doi:10.21163/GT_2016.111.01.
^ ^a ^b Lave, Rebecca; Wilson, Matthew W.; Barron, Elizabeth S.; Biermann, Christine; Carey, Mark A.; Duvall, Chris S. (2013). "Viewpoint Intervention: Critical physical geography". Canadian Geographies. 58 (1). doi:10.1111/cag.12061. S2CID 8753111.
^ ^a ^b Diriwächter, R. & Valsiner, J. (January 2006) Qualitative Developmental Research Methods in Their Historical and Epistemological Contexts. FQS. Vol 7, No. 1, Art. 8
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Burns, Ryan; Skupin, Andre´ (2013). "Towards Qualitative Geovisual Analytics: A Case Study Involving Places, People, and Mediated Experience". Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 48 (3): 157–176. doi:10.3138/carto.48.3.1691. S2CID 3269642. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^ Sale, Joanna E.M.; Thielke, Stephen (October 2018). "Qualitative research is a fundamental scientific process". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 102: 129–133. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.04.024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dixon, C.; Leach, B. (1977). Questionnaires and Interviews in Geographical Research (PDF). Geo Abstracts. ISBN 0-902246-97-6.
^ Tuan, Yi-Fu (1977). Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (1 ed.). University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3877-2.
^ Tuan, Yi-Fu (1991). "A View of Geography". Geographical Review. 81 (1): 99–107. doi:10.2307/215179. JSTOR 215179. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b Castree, Noel (2009). Key Concepts in Geography: Place, Connections and Boundaries in an Interdependent World (2 ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 85–96. ISBN 978-1-4051-9146-3.
^ ^a ^b Gregory, Ken (2009). Key Concepts in Geography: Place, The Management of Sustainable Physical Environments (2 ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 173–199. ISBN 978-1-4051-9146-3.
^ Tobler, Waldo (1970). "A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region" (PDF). Economic Geography. 46: 234–240. doi:10.2307/143141. JSTOR 143141. S2CID 34085823. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
^ Tobler, Waldo (2004). "On the First Law of Geography: A Reply". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 94 (2): 304–310. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402009.x. S2CID 33201684. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
^ Vibha, Pathak; Bijayini, Jena; Sanjay, Kaira (2013). "Qualitative research". Perspect Clin Res. 4 (3): 192. doi:10.4103/2229-3485.115389. PMC 3757586. PMID 24010063.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Suchan, Trudy; Brewer, Cynthia (2000). "Qualitative Methods for Research on Mapmaking and Map Use". The Professional Geographer. 52 (1): 145–154. doi:10.1111/0033-0124.00212. S2CID 129100721. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
^ Ribeiro, Daniel Melo (May 2018). "Art and cartography as a critique of borders". Proceedings of the ICA. 1: 1–6. doi:10.5194/ica-proc-1-95-2018. hdl:1843/43371.
^ Cook, Ian; Crang, Phil (1995). Doing Ethnographies.
^ ^a ^b Dixon, Chris; Leach, Bridget (1984). Survey Research in Underdeveloped Countries (PDF). ISBN 0-86094-135-3.
^ ^a ^b Magrane, Eric (2015). "Situating Geopoetics". GeoHumanities. 1 (1): 86–102. doi:10.1080/2373566X.2015.1071674. S2CID 219396902. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
^ Magrane, Eric; Johnson, Maria (2017). "An art–science approach to bycatch in the Gulf of California shrimp trawling fishery". Cultural Geographies. 24 (3): 487–495. doi:10.1177/1474474016684129. S2CID 149158790. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
^ Magrane, Eric (2021). "Climate geopoetics (the earth is a composted poem)". Dialogues in Human Geography. 11 (1): 8–22. doi:10.1177/2043820620908390. S2CID 213112503. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
^ Nassar, Aya (2021). "Geopoetics: Storytelling against mastery". Dialogues in Human Geography. 1: 27–30. doi:10.1177/2043820620986397. S2CID 232162263.
^ Engelmann, Sasha (2021). "Geopoetics: On organising, mourning, and the incalculable". Dialogues in Human Geography. 11: 31–35. doi:10.1177/2043820620986398. S2CID 232162320. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
^ Acker, Maleea (2021). "Gesturing toward the common and the desperation: Climate geopoetics' potential". Dialogues in Human Geography. 11 (1): 23–26. doi:10.1177/2043820620986396. S2CID 232162312. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
^ Cresswell, Tim (2021). "Beyond geopoetics: For hybrid texts". Dialogues in Human Geography. 11: 36–39. doi:10.1177/2043820620986399. hdl:20.500.11820/b64b3dd4-c959-4a8e-877f-85d3058ce4b1. S2CID 232162314.
^ Fotheringham, A. Stewart; Brunsdon, Chris; Charlton, Martin (2000). Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis. Sage Publications Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7619-5948-9.

[Brewer1994-1] Brewer, Cynthia (1994). "Color use guidelines for mapping and visualization". In MacEachren, A.M.; Taylor, D.R. Fraser (eds.). Visualization in Modern Cartography. Elsevier. pp. 123–134. ISBN 1483287920. Retrieved 24 December 2023.

[DeLyser1-2] DeLyser, Dydia; Herbert, Steve; Aitken, Stuart; Crang, Mike; McDowell, Linda (November 2009). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography (1 ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781412919913. Retrieved 27 April 2023.

[Haidu1-3] Haidu, Ionel (2016). "What is Technical Geography – a letter from the editor". Geographia Technica. 11: 1–5. doi:10.21163/GT_2016.111.01.

[Lave2013-4] Lave, Rebecca; Wilson, Matthew W.; Barron, Elizabeth S.; Biermann, Christine; Carey, Mark A.; Duvall, Chris S. (2013). "Viewpoint Intervention: Critical physical geography". Canadian Geographies. 58 (1). doi:10.1111/cag.12061. S2CID 8753111.

[Diriwächter1-5] Diriwächter, R. & Valsiner, J. (January 2006) Qualitative Developmental Research Methods in Their Historical and Epistemological Contexts. FQS. Vol 7, No. 1, Art. 8

[RyanBurns1-6] Burns, Ryan; Skupin, Andre´ (2013). "Towards Qualitative Geovisual Analytics: A Case Study Involving Places, People, and Mediated Experience". Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 48 (3): 157–176. doi:10.3138/carto.48.3.1691. S2CID 3269642. Retrieved 17 December 2022.

[Sale1-7] Sale, Joanna E.M.; Thielke, Stephen (October 2018). "Qualitative research is a fundamental scientific process". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 102: 129–133. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.04.024.

[Dixon1-8] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dixon, C.; Leach, B. (1977). Questionnaires and Interviews in Geographical Research (PDF). Geo Abstracts. ISBN 0-902246-97-6.

[Tuan1-9] Tuan, Yi-Fu (1977). Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (1 ed.). University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3877-2.

[Tuan2-10] Tuan, Yi-Fu (1991). "A View of Geography". Geographical Review. 81 (1): 99–107. doi:10.2307/215179. JSTOR 215179. Retrieved 5 January 2023.

[Castree1-11] Castree, Noel (2009). Key Concepts in Geography: Place, Connections and Boundaries in an Interdependent World (2 ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 85–96. ISBN 978-1-4051-9146-3.

[Gregory1-12] Gregory, Ken (2009). Key Concepts in Geography: Place, The Management of Sustainable Physical Environments (2 ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 173–199. ISBN 978-1-4051-9146-3.

[Tobler1-13] Tobler, Waldo (1970). "A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region" (PDF). Economic Geography. 46: 234–240. doi:10.2307/143141. JSTOR 143141. S2CID 34085823. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 22 July 2022.

[Tobler2-14] Tobler, Waldo (2004). "On the First Law of Geography: A Reply". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 94 (2): 304–310. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402009.x. S2CID 33201684. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.

[15] Vibha, Pathak; Bijayini, Jena; Sanjay, Kaira (2013). "Qualitative research". Perspect Clin Res. 4 (3): 192. doi:10.4103/2229-3485.115389. PMC 3757586. PMID 24010063.

[Suchan1-16] Suchan, Trudy; Brewer, Cynthia (2000). "Qualitative Methods for Research on Mapmaking and Map Use". The Professional Geographer. 52 (1): 145–154. doi:10.1111/0033-0124.00212. S2CID 129100721. Retrieved 26 August 2022.

[Ribeiro1-17] Ribeiro, Daniel Melo (May 2018). "Art and cartography as a critique of borders". Proceedings of the ICA. 1: 1–6. doi:10.5194/ica-proc-1-95-2018. hdl:1843/43371.

[18] Cook, Ian; Crang, Phil (1995). Doing Ethnographies.

[Dixon2-19] Dixon, Chris; Leach, Bridget (1984). Survey Research in Underdeveloped Countries (PDF). ISBN 0-86094-135-3.

[Magrane1-20] Magrane, Eric (2015). "Situating Geopoetics". GeoHumanities. 1 (1): 86–102. doi:10.1080/2373566X.2015.1071674. S2CID 219396902. Retrieved 21 August 2022.

[Magrane2-21] Magrane, Eric; Johnson, Maria (2017). "An art–science approach to bycatch in the Gulf of California shrimp trawling fishery". Cultural Geographies. 24 (3): 487–495. doi:10.1177/1474474016684129. S2CID 149158790. Retrieved 21 August 2022.

[Dialogs1-22] Magrane, Eric (2021). "Climate geopoetics (the earth is a composted poem)". Dialogues in Human Geography. 11 (1): 8–22. doi:10.1177/2043820620908390. S2CID 213112503. Retrieved 22 August 2022.

[Dialogs2-23] Nassar, Aya (2021). "Geopoetics: Storytelling against mastery". Dialogues in Human Geography. 1: 27–30. doi:10.1177/2043820620986397. S2CID 232162263.

[Dialogs3-24] Engelmann, Sasha (2021). "Geopoetics: On organising, mourning, and the incalculable". Dialogues in Human Geography. 11: 31–35. doi:10.1177/2043820620986398. S2CID 232162320. Retrieved 22 August 2022.

[Dialogs4-25] Acker, Maleea (2021). "Gesturing toward the common and the desperation: Climate geopoetics' potential". Dialogues in Human Geography. 11 (1): 23–26. doi:10.1177/2043820620986396. S2CID 232162312. Retrieved 22 August 2022.

[Dialogs5-26] Cresswell, Tim (2021). "Beyond geopoetics: For hybrid texts". Dialogues in Human Geography. 11: 36–39. doi:10.1177/2043820620986399. hdl:20.500.11820/b64b3dd4-c959-4a8e-877f-85d3058ce4b1. S2CID 232162314.

[Fotheringham1-27] Fotheringham, A. Stewart; Brunsdon, Chris; Charlton, Martin (2000). Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis. Sage Publications Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7619-5948-9.

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-{{Short description|subfield of geography focused on qualitative methods and data}}
+{{Short description|Subfield of geographic methods}}
+[[File:Indo-Aryan language map.svg|thumb|right|300px|A compound chorochromatic map of [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan (Indic) languages]] in South Asia. The color scheme represents the hierarchical nature of language classification, by grouping similar language families: yellows are Eastern Indic, purples are Dardic, reds are Southern Indic, greens are Western Indic, browns are Northern Indic, and oranges are Central Indic. Maps like these are often referred to as qualitative in the literature.<ref name="Brewer1994" />]]
-'''Qualitative geography''' is a subfield and methodological approach to [[geography]] focusing on the subjective and interpretive aspects of human experiences and world perceptions.<ref name="DeLyser1">{{cite book |last1=DeLyser |first1=Dydia |last2=Herbert |first2=Steve |last3=Aitken |first3=Stuart |last4=Crang |first4=Mike |last5=McDowell |first5=Linda |title=The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography |date=November 2009 |isbn=9781412919913 |edition=1 |url=https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-qualitative-geography/book228796#preview |access-date=27 April 2023}}</ref> It is concerned with understanding the lived experiences of individuals and groups and the social, cultural, and political contexts in which those experiences occur. Thus, qualitative geography is traditionally placed under the branch of [[human geography]]; however, [[Technical geography|technical geographers]] are increasingly directing their methods toward interpreting, visualizing, and understanding qualitative datasets.<ref name="Haidu1">{{cite journal |last1=Haidu |first1=Ionel |title=What is Technical Geography – a letter from the editor |journal=Geographia Technica |date=2016 |volume=11 |pages=1–5 |doi=10.21163/GT_2016.111.01|doi-access=free }}</ref>  While qualitative geography is often viewed as the opposite of [[quantitative geography]], the two sets of techniques are increasingly used to complement each other.<ref name="DeLyser1" /><ref name="Diriwächter1">Diriwächter, R. & Valsiner, J. (January 2006) [http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/72 Qualitative Developmental Research Methods in Their Historical and Epistemological Contexts]. FQS. Vol 7, No. 1, Art. 8</ref> [[Qualitative research]] can be employed in the scientific process to start the observation process, determine variables to include in research, validate results, and contextualize the results of [[quantitative research]] through [[mixed-methods research|mixed-methods]] approaches.<ref name="Haidu1" /><ref name="Diriwächter1" /><ref name="RyanBurns1">{{cite journal |last1=Burns |first1=Ryan |last2=Skupin |first2=Andre´ |title=Towards Qualitative Geovisual Analytics: A Case Study Involving Places, People, and Mediated Experience |journal=Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization |date=2013 |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=157–176 |doi=10.3138/carto.48.3.1691 |s2cid=3269642 |url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/carto.48.3.1691 |access-date=17 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Sale1">{{cite journal |last1=Sale |first1=Joanna E.M. |last2=Thielke |first2=Stephen |title=Qualitative research is a fundamental scientific process |journal=Journal of Clinical Epidemiology |date=October 2018 |volume=102 |pages=129-133 |doi=10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.04.024}}</ref><ref name="Dixon1">{{cite book |last1=Dixon |first1=C. |last2=Leach |first2=B. |title=Questionnaires and Interviews in Geographical Research |date=1977 |isbn=0 902246 97 6 |url=https://alexsingleton.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/18-questionnaires-and-interviews.pdf}}</ref>
+'''Qualitative geography''' is a subfield and methodological approach to [[geography]] focusing on [[Nominal category|nominal data]], descriptive information, and the subjective and interpretive aspects of how humans experience and perceive the world.<ref name="DeLyser1">{{cite book |last1=DeLyser |first1=Dydia |last2=Herbert |first2=Steve |last3=Aitken |first3=Stuart |last4=Crang |first4=Mike |last5=McDowell |first5=Linda |title=The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography |date=November 2009 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=9781412919913 |edition=1 |url=https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-qualitative-geography/book228796#preview |access-date=27 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="Brewer1994" /> Often, it is concerned with understanding the lived experiences of individuals and groups and the social, cultural, and political contexts in which those experiences occur. Thus, qualitative geography is traditionally placed under the branch of [[human geography]]; however, [[Technical geography|technical geographers]] are increasingly directing their methods toward interpreting, visualizing, and understanding qualitative datasets, and [[physical geography|physical geographers]] employ nominal qualitative data as well as quanitative.<ref name="Haidu1">{{cite journal |last1=Haidu |first1=Ionel |title=What is Technical Geography – a letter from the editor |journal=Geographia Technica |date=2016 |volume=11 |pages=1–5 |doi=10.21163/GT_2016.111.01|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Brewer1994" /> Furthermore, there is increased interest in applying approaches and methods that are generally viewed as more qualitative in nature to physical geography, such as in critical physical geography.<ref name="Lave2013">{{cite journal |last1=Lave |first1=Rebecca |last2=Wilson |first2=Matthew W. |last3=Barron |first3=Elizabeth S. |last4=Biermann |first4=Christine |last5=Carey |first5=Mark A. |last6=Duvall |first6=Chris S. |title=Viewpoint Intervention: Critical physical geography |journal=Canadian Geographies |date=2013 |volume=58 |issue=1 |doi=10.1111/cag.12061|s2cid=8753111 }}</ref> While qualitative geography is often viewed as the opposite of [[quantitative geography]], the two sets of techniques are increasingly used to complement each other.<ref name="DeLyser1" /><ref name="Diriwächter1">Diriwächter, R. & Valsiner, J. (January 2006) [http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/72 Qualitative Developmental Research Methods in Their Historical and Epistemological Contexts]. FQS. Vol 7, No. 1, Art. 8</ref><ref name="Lave2013" /> [[Qualitative research]] can be employed in the scientific process to start the observation process, determine variables to include in research, validate results, and contextualize the results of [[quantitative research]] through [[mixed-methods research|mixed-methods]] approaches.<ref name="Haidu1" /><ref name="Diriwächter1" /><ref name="RyanBurns1">{{cite journal |last1=Burns |first1=Ryan |last2=Skupin |first2=Andre´ |title=Towards Qualitative Geovisual Analytics: A Case Study Involving Places, People, and Mediated Experience |journal=Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization |date=2013 |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=157–176 |doi=10.3138/carto.48.3.1691 |s2cid=3269642 |url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/carto.48.3.1691 |access-date=17 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Sale1">{{cite journal |last1=Sale |first1=Joanna E.M. |last2=Thielke |first2=Stephen |title=Qualitative research is a fundamental scientific process |journal=Journal of Clinical Epidemiology |date=October 2018 |volume=102 |pages=129–133 |doi=10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.04.024}}</ref><ref name="Dixon1">{{cite book |last1=Dixon |first1=C. |last2=Leach |first2=B. |title=Questionnaires and Interviews in Geographical Research |date=1977 |publisher=Geo Abstracts |isbn=0-902246-97-6 |url=https://alexsingleton.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/18-questionnaires-and-interviews.pdf}}</ref>
 ==Approaches==
-Several scientific fields/subfields created or modified and applied specific concepts, theories, methods, principles/laws, techniques/technologies, etc. so to propose specific ''interdisciplinary approaches'' for addressing [[qualitative research|qualitative research-questions]] of geography.{{citation-needed|date=April 2023}} Qualitative geography is the interdisciplinary field of geography gathering these proposed interdisciplinary-approaches from:
+Several scientific fields/subfields created or modified and applied specific concepts, theories, methods, principles/laws, techniques/technologies, etc. so to propose specific ''interdisciplinary approaches'' for addressing [[qualitative research|qualitative research-questions]] of geography.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} Qualitative geography is the interdisciplinary field of geography gathering these proposed interdisciplinary-approaches from:
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+* [[Time geography]]
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+==Concept of place==
+{{Main|Location| Place identity| Sense of place}}
+Geography considers place as one of its most significant and complicated concepts, and describing a place is something that qualitative methods are absolutely necessary to accomplish.<ref name=Tuan1>{{cite book |last1=Tuan |first1=Yi-Fu |title=Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience |date=1977 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=0-8166-3877-2 |edition=1}}</ref><ref name=Tuan2>{{cite journal |last1=Tuan |first1=Yi-Fu |title=A View of Geography |journal=Geographical Review |date=1991 |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=99–107 |doi=10.2307/215179 |jstor=215179 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/215179 |access-date=5 January 2023}}</ref><ref name=Castree1>{{cite book |last1=Castree |first1=Noel |title=Key Concepts in Geography: Place, Connections and Boundaries in an Interdependent World |date=2009 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-9146-3 |pages=85–96 |edition=2}}</ref><ref name=Gregory1>{{cite book |last1=Gregory |first1=Ken |title=Key Concepts in Geography: Place, The Management of Sustainable Physical Environments |date=2009 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-9146-3 |pages=173–199 |edition=2}}</ref> When referring to human geography, place is a combination of the geographical coordinates of a location, the activities that take place there (past, present, and future), and the interpretations that human individuals and groups assigned to that [[space]]. This can be highly intricate because people may have different uses and perceptions of the exact location at different times. Moreover, places are not isolated entities and have complex spatial connections, as geography is interested in how an area is positioned relative to all other locations.<ref name="Tobler1">{{cite journal |last1=Tobler |first1=Waldo |title=A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region |journal=Economic Geography |date=1970 |volume=46 |pages=234–240 |doi=10.2307/143141 |jstor=143141 |s2cid=34085823 |url=http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eaa5/eefedd4fa34b7de7448c0c8e0822e9fdf956.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308014451/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eaa5/eefedd4fa34b7de7448c0c8e0822e9fdf956.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-03-08 |access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref><ref name="Tobler2">{{cite journal |last1=Tobler |first1=Waldo |title=On the First Law of Geography: A Reply |journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers |date=2004 |volume=94 |issue=2 |pages=304–310 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402009.x |s2cid=33201684 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402009.x |access-date=22 July 2022 |archive-date=21 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621022730/http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402009.x |url-status=live }}</ref> Therefore, geography includes all spatial phenomena at a particular site, the various meanings and uses attributed to it, and how it affects and is affected by all other locations on the planet.<ref name=Castree1/><ref name=Gregory1/> While quantitative methods can describe spatial coordinates, the concept of place is, in many ways, non-quantifiable. Thus, while quantitative methods are incredibly useful in an understanding of space, qualitative methods are essential.
 ==Methods==
-Qualitative geography is descriptive rather than numerical or statistical in nature.<ref name="RyanBurns1"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vibha |first1=Pathak |last2=Bijayini |first2=Jena |last3=Sanjay |first3=Kaira |title=Qualitative research |journal=Perspect Clin Res |date=2013 |volume=4 |issue=3 |page=192 |doi=10.4103/2229-3485.115389 |pmid=24010063 |pmc=3757586 }}</ref> Qualitative geography involves methods such as [[ethnography]], interviews, and participant observation to gather data and make sense of the complexity and diversity of human geography.<ref name="DeLyser1" /><ref name="Dixon1" /> It emphasizes the importance of subjectivity, reflexivity, and interpretation in research. Qualitative geography aims to produce rich, detailed accounts of the social and cultural landscapes in which people live. Qualitative research is often exploratory and descriptive, emphasizing the importance of subjectivity, reflexivity, and interpretation. While qualitative methods are often viewed as opposite to quantitative methods, there is an increased emphasis in geography on mixed methods approaches that employ both. Increasingly, technical geographers are exploring GIS methods applied to qualitative datasets.<ref name="RyanBurns1"/><ref name="Haidu1" /><ref name="Suchan1">{{cite journal |last1=Suchan |first1=Trudy |last2=Brewer |first2=Cynthia |title=Qualitative Methods for Research on Mapmaking and Map Use |journal=The Professional Geographer |date=2000 |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=145–154 |doi=10.1111/0033-0124.00212 |s2cid=129100721 |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/0033-0124.00212 |access-date=26 August 2022}}</ref>
+Qualitative geography is descriptive rather than numerical or statistical in nature.<ref name="RyanBurns1"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vibha |first1=Pathak |last2=Bijayini |first2=Jena |last3=Sanjay |first3=Kaira |title=Qualitative research |journal=Perspect Clin Res |date=2013 |volume=4 |issue=3 |page=192 |doi=10.4103/2229-3485.115389 |pmid=24010063 |pmc=3757586 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Qualitative geography involves methods such as [[ethnography]], interviews, and participant observation to gather data and make sense of the complexity and diversity of human geography.<ref name="DeLyser1" /><ref name="Dixon1" /> It emphasizes the importance of subjectivity, reflexivity, and interpretation in research. Qualitative geography aims to produce rich, detailed accounts of the social and cultural landscapes in which people live. Qualitative research is often exploratory and descriptive, emphasizing the importance of subjectivity, reflexivity, and interpretation. While qualitative methods are often viewed as opposite to quantitative methods, there is an increased emphasis in geography on mixed methods approaches that employ both. Increasingly, technical geographers are exploring GIS methods applied to qualitative datasets.<ref name="RyanBurns1"/><ref name="Haidu1" /><ref name="Suchan1">{{cite journal |last1=Suchan |first1=Trudy |last2=Brewer |first2=Cynthia |title=Qualitative Methods for Research on Mapmaking and Map Use |journal=The Professional Geographer |date=2000 |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=145–154 |doi=10.1111/0033-0124.00212 |s2cid=129100721 |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/0033-0124.00212 |access-date=26 August 2022}}</ref>
 ===Qualitative cartography===
 {{Main|Cartography}}
+[[File:Geologic Map of Georgia.png|300px|alt=Picture of the U.S. state of Georgia divided up and colored by geologic feature.|thumb|[[United States Geological Survey|USGS]] geological map of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] that visualizes distinctive geological regions as unique colors using a chorochromatic map. Note that the regions change based on variations in rock type, not preexisting political boundaries.]]
-Qualitative cartography employs many of the same software and techniques as quantitative.<ref name="Suchan1"/> It may be employed to inform on map practices, or to visualize perspectives and ideas that are not strictly quantitative in nature.<ref name="Suchan1"/><ref name="RyanBurns1"/> Qualitative cartography can be used as art to communicate concepts not necessarily tied to spatial coordinates or to demonstrate the impacts, limitations, and implications of cartography on diverse groups of people.<ref name="Ribeiro1">{{cite journal |last1=Ribeiro |first1=Daniel Melo |title=Art and cartography as a critique of borders |journal=Proceedings of the ICA |date=May 2018 |volume=1 |doi=10.5194/ica-proc-1-95-2018|hdl=1843/43371 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
+Qualitative cartography employs many of the same software and techniques as quantitative.<ref name="Suchan1"/> It may be employed to inform on map practices, or to visualize perspectives and ideas that are not strictly quantitative in nature.<ref name="Suchan1"/><ref name="RyanBurns1"/> Examples of common qualitative information mapped include [[Chorochromatic map]] of nominal data, such as land use and land cover.<ref name="Brewer1994">{{cite book |last1=Brewer |first1=Cynthia |editor1-last=MacEachren |editor1-first=A.M. |editor2-last=Taylor |editor2-first=D.R. Fraser |title=Visualization in Modern Cartography |date=1994 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=1483287920 |pages=123–134 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cP-BAAAQBAJ&q=cynthia+brewer |access-date=24 December 2023 |chapter=Color use guidelines for mapping and visualization}}</ref> In such cases, literature suggests using hue, rather than saturation, for displaying qualitative map topics.<ref name="Brewer1994" />
+Qualitative cartography can be used as art to communicate concepts not necessarily tied to spatial coordinates or to demonstrate the impacts, limitations, and implications of cartography on diverse groups of people.<ref name="Ribeiro1">{{cite journal |last1=Ribeiro |first1=Daniel Melo |title=Art and cartography as a critique of borders |journal=Proceedings of the ICA |date=May 2018 |volume=1 |pages=1–6 |doi=10.5194/ica-proc-1-95-2018|hdl=1843/43371 |hdl-access=free |doi-access=free }}</ref>
+Qualitative methods are employed by geographers seeking to improve cartographic practices by understanding how subjective cartographic choices impact how data is understood by users.<ref name="Suchan1" />
 ===Ethnography===
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 ===Interviews===
 {{Main|Interview (research)}}
-Geographers can employ interviews to gather data and insights from individuals or groups about their experiences, perceptions, and opinions related to geographic phenomena.<ref name="Dixon1" /><ref name="Dixon2">{{cite book |last1=Dixon |first1=Chris |last2=Leach |first2=Bridget |title=Survey Research in Underdeveloped Countries |date=1984 |isbn=0 86094 135 3 |url=https://alexsingleton.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/39-survey-research-in-underdeveloped-countries.pdf}}</ref> Interviews can be conducted in various formats, including face-to-face, telephone, online, or written.<ref name="DeLyser1" /><ref name="Dixon1" /> To employ interviews in research, geographers typically follow a structured or semi-structured format with questions or topics to guide the conversation.<ref name="Dixon1" /> These questions elicit specific information about the research topic while allowing participants to share their personal experiences and insights.<ref name="Dixon2" /> Geographers also often use open-ended questions to encourage participants to provide more detailed and nuanced responses.<ref name="Dixon1" />
+Geographers can employ interviews to gather data and insights from individuals or groups about their experiences, perceptions, and opinions related to geographic phenomena.<ref name="Dixon1" /><ref name="Dixon2">{{cite book |last1=Dixon |first1=Chris |last2=Leach |first2=Bridget |title=Survey Research in Underdeveloped Countries |date=1984 |isbn=0-86094-135-3 |url=https://alexsingleton.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/39-survey-research-in-underdeveloped-countries.pdf}}</ref> Interviews can be conducted in various formats, including face-to-face, telephone, online, or written.<ref name="DeLyser1" /><ref name="Dixon1" /> To employ interviews in research, geographers typically follow a structured or semi-structured format with questions or topics to guide the conversation.<ref name="Dixon1" /> These questions elicit specific information about the research topic while allowing participants to share their personal experiences and insights.<ref name="Dixon2" /> Geographers also often use open-ended questions to encourage participants to provide more detailed and nuanced responses.<ref name="Dixon1" />
 ===Geopoetics===
+{{Main|Geopoetics}}
-Geopoetics is a discipline that combines geography and [[poetry]] to explore, contextualize, and communicate geographic concepts, research, and phenomena.<ref name="Magrane1">{{cite journal |last1=Magrane |first1=Eric |title=Situating Geopoetics |journal=GeoHumanities |date=2015 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=86–102 |doi=10.1080/2373566X.2015.1071674 |s2cid=219396902 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2015.1071674 |access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref> Geopoetics can be viewed as a methodology in itself, but is increasingly used as a mixed methods tool to explain the implications of quantitative geographic research and phenomena.<ref name="Magrane1"/><ref name="Magrane2">{{cite journal |last1=Magrane |first1=Eric |last2=Johnson |first2=Maria |title=An art–science approach to bycatch in the Gulf of California shrimp trawling fishery |journal=Cultural Geographies |date=2017 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=487–495 |doi=10.1177/1474474016684129 |s2cid=149158790 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474016684129 |access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref> Topics addressed by geopoetics often include impacts of the [[anthropocene]], such as climate change and environmental exploitation.<ref name="Dialogs1">{{cite journal |last1=Magrane |first1=Eric |title=Climate geopoetics (the earth is a composted poem) |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=8–22 |doi=10.1177/2043820620908390 |s2cid=213112503 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2043820620908390 |access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="Dialogs2">{{cite journal |last1=Nassar |first1=Aya |title=Geopoetics: Storytelling against mastery |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=1 |pages=27–30 |doi=10.1177/2043820620986397 |s2cid=232162263 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Dialogs3">{{cite journal |last1=Engelmann |first1=Sasha |title=Geopoetics: On organising, mourning, and the incalculable |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=11 |pages=31–35 |doi=10.1177/2043820620986398 |s2cid=232162320 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620986398 |access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="Dialogs4">{{cite journal |last1=Acker |first1=Maleea |title=Gesturing toward the common and the desperation: Climate geopoetics' potential |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=23–26 |doi=10.1177/2043820620986396 |s2cid=232162312 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2043820620986396 |access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="Dialogs5">{{cite journal |last1=Cresswell |first1=Tim |title=Beyond geopoetics: For hybrid texts |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=11 |pages=36–39 |doi=10.1177/2043820620986399 |s2cid=232162314 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
+Geopoetics is a discipline that combines geography and [[poetry]] to explore, contextualize, and communicate geographic concepts, research, and phenomena.<ref name="Magrane1">{{cite journal |last1=Magrane |first1=Eric |title=Situating Geopoetics |journal=GeoHumanities |date=2015 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=86–102 |doi=10.1080/2373566X.2015.1071674 |s2cid=219396902 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2015.1071674 |access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref> Geopoetics can be viewed as a methodology in itself, but is increasingly used as a mixed methods tool to explain the implications of quantitative geographic research and phenomena.<ref name="Magrane1"/><ref name="Magrane2">{{cite journal |last1=Magrane |first1=Eric |last2=Johnson |first2=Maria |title=An art–science approach to bycatch in the Gulf of California shrimp trawling fishery |journal=Cultural Geographies |date=2017 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=487–495 |doi=10.1177/1474474016684129 |s2cid=149158790 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474016684129 |access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref> Topics addressed by geopoetics often include impacts of the [[anthropocene]], such as climate change and environmental exploitation.<ref name="Dialogs1">{{cite journal |last1=Magrane |first1=Eric |title=Climate geopoetics (the earth is a composted poem) |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=8–22 |doi=10.1177/2043820620908390 |s2cid=213112503 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2043820620908390 |access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="Dialogs2">{{cite journal |last1=Nassar |first1=Aya |title=Geopoetics: Storytelling against mastery |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=1 |pages=27–30 |doi=10.1177/2043820620986397 |s2cid=232162263 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Dialogs3">{{cite journal |last1=Engelmann |first1=Sasha |title=Geopoetics: On organising, mourning, and the incalculable |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=11 |pages=31–35 |doi=10.1177/2043820620986398 |s2cid=232162320 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620986398 |access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="Dialogs4">{{cite journal |last1=Acker |first1=Maleea |title=Gesturing toward the common and the desperation: Climate geopoetics' potential |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=23–26 |doi=10.1177/2043820620986396 |s2cid=232162312 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2043820620986396 |access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="Dialogs5">{{cite journal |last1=Cresswell |first1=Tim |title=Beyond geopoetics: For hybrid texts |journal=Dialogues in Human Geography |date=2021 |volume=11 |pages=36–39 |doi=10.1177/2043820620986399 |s2cid=232162314 |doi-access=free |hdl=20.500.11820/b64b3dd4-c959-4a8e-877f-85d3058ce4b1 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
-==Concept of place==
-{{Main|Location| Place identity| Sense of place}}
-Geography considers place as one of its most significant and complicated concepts, and describing a place is something that qualitative methods are absolutely necessary to accomplish.<ref name=Tuan1>{{cite book |last1=Tuan |first1=Yi-Fu |title=Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience |date=1977 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=0-8166-3877-2 |edition=1}}</ref><ref name=Tuan2>{{cite journal |last1=Tuan |first1=Yi-Fu |title=A View of Geography |journal=Geographical Review |date=1991 |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=99–107 |doi=10.2307/215179 |jstor=215179 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/215179 |access-date=5 January 2023}}</ref><ref name=Castree1>{{cite book |last1=Castree |first1=Noel |title=Key Concepts in Geography: Place, Connections and Boundaries in an Interdependent World |date=2009 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-9146-3 |pages=85–96 |edition=2}}</ref><ref name=Gregory1>{{cite book |last1=Gregory |first1=Ken |title=Key Concepts in Geography: Place, The Management of Sustainable Physical Environments |date=2009 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-9146-3 |pages=173–199 |edition=2}}</ref> When referring to human geography, place is a combination of the geographical coordinates of a location, the activities that take place there (past, present, and future), and the interpretations that human individuals and groups assigned to that [[space]]. This can be highly intricate because people may have different uses and perceptions of the exact location at different times. Moreover, places are not isolated entities and have complex spatial connections, as geography is interested in how an area is positioned relative to all other locations.<ref name="Tobler1">{{cite journal |last1=Tobler |first1=Waldo |title=A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region |journal=Economic Geography |date=1970 |volume=46 |pages=234–240 |doi=10.2307/143141 |jstor=143141 |s2cid=34085823 |url=http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eaa5/eefedd4fa34b7de7448c0c8e0822e9fdf956.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308014451/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eaa5/eefedd4fa34b7de7448c0c8e0822e9fdf956.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-03-08 |access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref><ref name="Tobler2">{{cite journal |last1=Tobler |first1=Waldo |title=On the First Law of Geography: A Reply |journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers |date=2004 |volume=94 |issue=2 |pages=304–310 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402009.x |s2cid=33201684 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402009.x |access-date=22 July 2022 |archive-date=21 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621022730/http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402009.x |url-status=live }}</ref> Therefore, geography includes all spatial phenomena at a particular site, the various meanings and uses attributed to it, and how it affects and is affected by all other locations on the planet.<ref name=Castree1/><ref name=Gregory1/> While quantitative methods can describe spatial coordinates, the concept of place is, in many ways, non-quantifiable. Thus, while quantitative methods are incredibly useful in an understanding of space, qualitative methods are essential.
 ==Criticisms==
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 ==Influential geographers==<!-- Please respect alphabetical order -->
+[[File:Yi-Fu Tuan-Festival international de géographie 2012 (1).jpg|thumb|Yi-Fu Tuan in 2012]]
 {{Main|List of geographers|List of Graeco-Roman geographers}}
 * [[Carl O. Sauer]] (1889–1975)&nbsp;– cultural geographer.
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 * [[Paul Vidal de La Blache]] (1845–1918)&nbsp;– founder of the French school of geopolitics, wrote the principles of human geography.
 * [[Walter Christaller]] (1893–1969)&nbsp;– human geographer and inventor of [[Central place theory]].
-* [[Yi-Fu Tuan]] (1930-2022)&nbsp;– Chinese-American scholar credited with starting Humanistic Geography as a discipline.
+* [[Yi-Fu Tuan]] (1930–2022)&nbsp;– Chinese-American scholar credited with starting Humanistic Geography as a discipline.
 == Publications ==<!-- Please respect alphabetical order -->
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 * [[Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography]]
 * [[Counter-mapping]]
-* [[Ecological fallacy]]
 * [[Geographic information systems in geospatial intelligence]]
 * [[GIS and public health]]
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 * [[GIS in archaeology]]
 * [[Historical GIS]]
+* [[Map communication model]]
 * [[Methodological dualism]]
 * [[Online qualitative research]]
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 * [[Qualitative psychological research]]
 * [[Quantitative history]]
+* [[Scientific Geography Series]]
 * [[Tobler's first law of geography]]
 * [[Tobler's second law of geography]]
 * [[Traditional knowledge GIS]]
-* [[Transcript poetry]]
-* [[Uncertain geographic context problem]]
 {{div col end}}