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A Passion for Fieldwork was published in February 2020, just before COVID-19 abruptly halted university and college fieldwork. The timing was perfect. COVID-19 brought out into the open a hushed and guarded discussion increasingly taking place within universities and colleges around the world. Do we really need to send students or colleagues into the field, and risk being eaten by insects, bears, or sharks? Should we pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to travel to exotic locales to collect data? Can't we use remote sensing, phone data, or real-time data on the Internet to provide research material? Isn't virtual fieldwork so much easier and cheaper for students and staff alike? This book is a celebration of fieldwork. All kinds of fieldwork-boots on the ground fieldwork, open ocean fieldwork, fieldwork on lakes-any fieldwork, except virtual fieldwork. Edited by geographer Tim Burt and ecologist Des Thompson, this is a book of essays where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. There are many cross-cutting themes and not a single contribution is without merit. The book starts in an appropriately scholarly manner with six excellent analyses of historical and contemporar

Who reads Volume 9, Issue 1?

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences