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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Qualitative GIS"”.
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Exploring Youth Relationships with Nature Using Qualitative GIS
… youth relationships with nature by expanding qualitative GIS methods to engage youth in research to document personal accounts of their experiences of nature and linking them to the locations of specific places. We partnered with a community organization, Nature Kids / Jóvenes de la Naturaleza …
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Family child care physical activity ecology: A qualitative GIS study
… context, in part because the population is logistically difficult to reach. Through a socioecological lens, this mixed-method dissertation examines the spatial and social processes by which FCCPs shape opportunities for preschoolers’ physical activity engagement in their community context. …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Historical Redlining and Place-Based Reproductive Health Inequities: A Qualitative GIS Approach
… neighborhood political ecology, this study used Qualitative GIS to explore the relationship between historical redlining, contemporary neighborhood conditions, and spatial clusters of preterm birth in Denver, Colorado. Using an explanatory sequential mixed methods design, the geospatial strand …
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"""Everything around me has skyrocketed"": Using qualitative GIS to understand middle-income renters’ perceptions of housing price, neighborhood change, and (im)mobility in New York City"
… due to changes since they moved there. Using a qualitative GIS analysis of study participants' perceptions of affordable and desirable places to live in the city, I identify how some anticipate exclusion from the city on a future move. In these ways, I interrogate how some middle-income renters …
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Using Qualitative Geographic Information Systems to Explore Gendered Dimensions for Conservation Agriculture Production Systems in the Philippines: A Mixed Methods Approach
… and soil conservation. This approach combines qualitative and quantitative methods such as focus group discussions, household interviews, participatory mapping, and GPS mapping. I found that men and women have gendered soil perceptions which are linked to topography, gender roles, and access to …
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FOOD JUSTICE IN POST-INDUSTRIAL US CITIES: THE ROLE OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
… The study used mixed-methods, including qualitative GIS, statistical tests, surveys, interviews, and field observations. A food justice theoretical framework was used to develop a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index (PFIVI), which factored together 33 variables to measure …
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The Bicycle, the Unsuitable Substitute:A Feasibility Study Based in Fayetteville, AR Using a Bicycle as a Year-Round Replacement for an Automobile
… this study and the only way to capture the truly qualitative aspects of this project. Riding journeys were captured with video and GPS documentation. This provides georeferenced data for some of the qualitative GIS analysis. </p> <p>These previously mentioned conditions except for weather can be …
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Latina health geographies and intervening community-based organizations in the Chicago suburbs
… Chicagoland. For my data analysis I employed qualitative GIS mapping, spatial analysis, and qualitative interview analysis. My first paper examined the barriers Latinas face in accessing healthcare services that meet their linguistic and financial needs. This paper found that Latina immigrant …
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Mapping the Experience of Home: Using Geospatial Perception Mapping to Understand Neighborhood Sense of Place in the Wells Avenue Neighborhood Conservation District, Reno, Nevada
… of Geographic Information Systems as a tool for qualitative data collection and comunication, this study investigates how personal experiences and perceptions, community connections and common goals, and specifically-identified areas of personal meaning play into the way in which these different …
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Governing bodies through space, governing space through bodies: Police power, planning, and race in Central Atlanta
… and Georgia State University. I conducted a qualitative GIS approach known as geo-narratives with students at each school. This process gathered data on subjects’ affective response to police activity, while a range of qualitative methods (including interviews, archival research, and …
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Reconstructing the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Daily Life in the 19th Century City: A Historical GIS Approach
… geographers have become interested in the use of GIS to study historical patterns, populations, and phenomena. The result has been the emergence of a new discipline, historical GIS. Despite the growing use of GIS across geography and history, the use of GIS in historical research has been limited …
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Health and wellbeing geographies of female domestic workers: Understanding space-time constraints and access to health-promoting places and social networks
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01