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Copyright

Stuart N. Lane; Rebecca Lave;

Published On

2025-02-25

Page Range

pp. 183–188

Language

  • English

Print Length

6 pages

11. Introduction to the research recipes

Chapter of: The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research(pp. 183–188)
This short chapter introduces Section 2 of the Field Guide, which provides compelling examples of mixed methods environmental research “recipes.” We note three common characteristics amongst the chapters: deep engagement with place, which allows the researchers to slow down and more carefully tailor their research methods to their field sites; the importance of collaboration with researchers from other disciplines and/or local people, who bring their own knowledge of the field site; and innovative combinations of seemingly disparate methods that allow the authors to see their field sites from multiple perspectives.

Contributors

Stuart Lane

(author)
Professor of Geomorphology at University of Lausanne
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6077-6076

Stuart N. Lane is Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Lausanne. He is a geographer and civil engineer by training who has held posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Durham in the U.K. and Lausanne in Switzerland. His work has sought to bring a geographical perspective to contemporary environmental concerns such as flooding and pollution. The primary focus of his current work is the environments created by disappearing glaciers in terms of ice, water, sediment and ecosystems and the consequences of these changes for environmental management. An important thread through his most recent research criticizes the current alignment of geography as a discipline with the ever more neo-liberal academy; and then argues for the rediscovery of a more scientific geographical science better able to cope with the crises the world is experiencing today.

Rebecca Lave

(author)
Professor of Geography at Indiana University
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5335-9058

Rebecca Lave is Professor of Geography at Indiana University and the 2022-2025 American Association of Geographers Vice-President/President/Past-President. Her research takes a Critical Physical Geography approach, combining political economy, STS, and fluvial geomorphology to analyze stream restoration, the politics of environmental expertise, and community-based responses to flooding. She has published in journals ranging from Science to Social Studies of Science and is the author of two monographs: Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science (2012, University of Georgia Press) and Streams of Revenues: The Restoration Economy and the Ecosystems it Creates (2021 MIT Press; co-written with Martin Doyle). She has co-edited four volumes, including the Handbook of Critical Physical Geography (2018, with Christine Biermann and Stuart N. Lane).