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Methods and Research Design in (Global) Environmental Politics and Governance: Thinking about Problem-Solving
Type of Session
Discussion Symposium
Abstract
This symposium brings together expert scholars who employ a range of different methodological approaches and frameworks to help understand increasingly complex, multi-scalar, and linked environmental problems and politics. The purpose is to engage in discussion about research design, methods, data-gathering, and analysis, and we include approaches as various as ethnography, modelling, data science (especially using big data), comparative case analysis, visualization and statistical analysis. The session will be structured in a roundtable format, but requires the time afforded to this sort of session.
This symposium will provide a forum for graduate students and other junior members of the field, but really for any of us, to discuss how best to engage with applied/problem solving theory, interdisciplinarity, collaborative work, and a newly digitized research environment, in designing, asking and answering research questions.