EARTH121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Qualitative Property, Environmental Ethics, Content Analysis

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: EARTH121
• Professor: Keith Delaney

Document Summary

In the table below, list these 10 contributions. Role how social science contributes to natural resource management. Documents what exists: summarizes relationships over time or amongst datasets, analyzes values, attitudes, and perceptions, designs, describes, and evaluates decision processes. Investigates power relationships and acts as agents of change: contributes to understanding indigenous knowledge systems, human. Culture, and methods of relating western and indigenous forest. Social science research can include either quantitative or qualitative methods, and both methods are frequently used in a single study. Qualitative data collection methods provide in-depth understanding of a single topic and are unique to the social sciences: what are examples of qualitative research and quantitative research methods in the social. Sciences: qualitative data-collection methods include individual and group interviews, surveys, content analysis (such as document review), observation, and case studies. The economic significance of natural resources depends upon the magnitude of two basic variables: current flows of income and potential future flows of income.