Professor Reginald Golledge has teamed up with Douglas Amedeo and Robert Stimson to produce a new book about researching spatial influences on people’s everyday activities and experiences: Person-Environment-Behavior Research: Investigating Activities and Experiences in Spaces and Environments. To quote the Guilford Press release, “Written by leading authorities, this book provides a comprehensive framework for collecting and analyzing reliable person-environment-behavior data in real-world settings that rarely match the controlled conditions described in typical texts. An array of research designs are illustrated in chapter-length examples addressing such compelling issues as spatial patterns of voting behavior, ways in which disabilities affect people’s travel and wayfinding, how natural and built environments evoke emotional responses, spatial factors in elementary teaching and learning, and more."
Reg has coauthored books with Amedeo as well as Stimson in the past, notably, Amedeo, D., & Golledge, R. G. (1975). An Introduction to Scientific Reasoning in Geography. New York: John Wiley and Sons; Golledge, R. G., & Stimson, R. (1987). Analytical Behavioural Geography. London: Croom Helm; and Golledge, R. G., & Stimson, R. J. (1997). Spatial Behavior: A Geographic Perspective. New York: Guilford Press. Doug Amedeo is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln whose research interests include spatial analysis, person-environment-behavior relationships, and research methodology. Bob Stimson is a Professor of Geographical Sciences and Planning and directs the Urban and Regional Analysis Program in the UQ Center for Social Science Research, Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Queensland. He is also the Convenor of the Australian Research Council Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Science. He conducts research in areas of human spatial behavior and urban and regional analysis, development, and planning.
The 402 page book is slated to be published this September. Dr. Scott Bell (Assistant Professor at Brown University), whose MA and PhD were completed at UCSB under the supervision of Dr. Golledge, reviewed the book for Guilford and commented that it “presents a wealth of valuable information for scholars of spatial behavior across disciplinary boundaries from beginning to more advanced researchers…The progression from methods and topics in the initial sections to concrete, successful applications in the latter sections is effective. Readers can easily locate and reference the parts of the book that will meet their particular needs.” Dr. Jon Malinowski, Associate Professor of Geography at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, adds “This book should be a mandatory addition to the library of any person-environment-behavior researcher, and will be a welcome primer for graduate students facing serious research design for the first time. There is nothing else like it on the market, and the authors are giants in the field. Many examples from seminal research studies connect the concepts discussed to real-world practices.”
