HARP 234 Hot Topics, Hot Issues, and Hot Spots
Professor Mark E. Reisinger
Research Paper Bibliography Assignment
Due Date: March 14, 2018
Prepare a bibliography of sources, which may be useful for examining your proposed research topic.
Your bibliography should contain the following parts:
1. A short (2-3 paragraphs) summary of your topic and your research or bibliographic
objectives.
2. Five (5) sources of information described in detail. Give a full citation* and a paragraph
describing the contents of the source (a précis) and its usefulness for your proposed topic.
This requirement presupposes that you have actually obtained the source, read it, and thought
about its relevance.
3. Five to ten (5 - 10) additional sources, with full citations and a one or two line description of
their possible usefulness.
Format: The bibliography should be typed or word-processed, double-spaced. Please submit your
bibliography assignment to Blackboard.
* A full citation includes: Complete author's name. Year of publication. Title.
For a book: Place of publication. Publisher.
For a journal article: Journal title. Volume number. Page numbers.
LOCATING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
There are at least five major sources, which will be useful in compiling the bibliography for your
paper. They are listed below in order of importance.
1. Follow up references in the back of books and articles you have already read. Determine
which authors seem to have written articles or books relevant to your research interests. Find
these books and articles; read them; look at their bibliographies; see what other relevant
works the author has written and what ones he or she cites.
2. Find other works by the same author or authors. Look in the standard bibliographic indexes
for geography for the topic of interest.
3. Find reviews of the literature in your field of interest.
4. If you have exhausted the reference, author name, and review of the literature searches
suggested above, then do a search under your topic or keyword. The first place to look is one
of the library’s electronic databases such as Carl Uncover, EBSCO, Lexis-Nexis, etc.
5. Explore the related links given in the Term Project/Paper handout
APPROACHING THE LITERATURE
The best way of searching through bibliographic indexes to locate a body of literature on a topic is to
begin with 4-5 major articles on that topic, and to follow the authors and their citations through the
bibliographic sources, as discussed above.
However, it may happen that you don't have those 4-5 major articles, so you pick a topic, search
through the bibliographic sources for articles on it, and end up with a list of 1000 citations. What do
you do then?
1. First, search your list of citations for those which appear to be review articles. The problem
with a list of citations generated by a bibliographic source is that it is completely
unorganized. Any review articles you find will give you a clue as to which topics or
questions those who work in the field find most, or least challenging, what kinds of data and
methods of analysis are most frequently employed in responding to those questions, and who
are the principal authors of work on the topic. You need not accept this organization of the
topic as your own, but you must be aware of what it is.
2. Separate out publications which appear to be government documents. These may provide
excellent data; they won't necessarily identify the major questions addressed in the literature.
3. Divide the rest of the citations into those published in a) good journals and b) other journals.
Since geography is such a broad discipline, it is often necessary to investigate the literature of
other disciplines and this may take you into unfamiliar territory. Start with the “good”
geography journals and determine the publications and authors that seem to be cited most
often. A partial list of geography journals and websites follows:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
o.
p.
q.
r.
s.
t.
u.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Professional Geographer
Area
American Demographics
Cities
Regional Studies
Economic Geography
Journal of Regional Science
Environment and Planning A
Growth and Change
Canadian Geographer
Urban Geography
Urban History
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Globalization and World Cities website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/
United Nations Center for Human Settlements http://www.unchs.org
The World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/urban/
Population Studies
Demography
Population and Development Review
Population
v. Population Bulletin
w. International Family Planning Perspectives
x. Journal of Population Economics
y. Population and Environment
z. Public Health Reports
aa. Environment and Planning D – Society and Space
bb. Development & Change
cc. European Journal of Population
dd. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research
ee. International Migration Review
ff. Journal of Marketing Research
gg. Papers in Regional Science
hh. Population Index
ii. Population Research & Policy Review
jj. Population Studies – A Journal of Demography
kk. Urban Affairs Review
ll. Urban Studies
In your review of the literature, concentrate on the citations which appear under a) and ignore those
under b) unless one of the latter citations appears to match your topic exactly.
4. Finally, put all the citations back into one pile, and search this pile for authors whose names
appear repeatedly. They are likely to be the major scholars of the topic.
Running head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON THE SUBMERGENCE OF MALDIVE
A Research Proposal on the Submergence of the Maldives
Student’s Name
University Affiliation
RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON THE SUBMERGENCE OF MALDIVE
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Summary
My topic is the contribution of global warming to the submergence of the Maldives. A
research on this topic is not only timely but also necessary given the recent hurricanes that hit
Texas, United States. My choice of Maldives for the study is based on the observation that a vast
majority of the catastrophic consequences of global warming are felt along the coastal regions. I
will use both secondary and primary data sources. In particular, population census reports and field
observation will be my primary data sources. Secondary sources will include published case
studies and peer reviews. The collected data will be analyzed with the help of both quantitative
and qualitative techniques such as content analysis and correlation analysis.
Theoretical Basis for The Project
The question I want to address in this paper is, can global warming cause the submergence
of the Maldives and the subsequent displacement of its people? Although there are other factors
that may cause the submergence Maldives, I expect to find that global warming is responsible for
the submergence of the Maldives and the subsequent displacement of its people. I expect to
validate this predicted finding because I firmly believe that global warming causes climate change.
I view, the submergence of the Maldives is feasible because of the rising sea water levels. Besides,
I am utterly convinced that global warming causes the rise in atmospheric temperatures that trigger
the melting of ice on high mountains. The molten ice finally finds its way into the Indian Ocean,
thereby causing the rise in sea water level. I find this topic interesting because coastal regions are
prone to tsunamis, yet people enjoy the sandy beaches at the coastal islands.
The Most Relevant Literature
I find the following literature relevant to my topic.
RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON THE SUBMERGENCE OF MALDIVE
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Gagain, M. (2012). Climate change, sea level rise, and artificial islands: Saving the
Maldives' statehood and maritime claims through the constitution of the oceans
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Hirsch, E. (2015). “It won't be any good to have democracy if we don’t have a country”:
Climate change and the politics of synecdoche in the Maldives
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Kench, P. S., McLean, R. F., & Nichol, S. L. (2005). New model of reef-island evolution:
Maldives, Indian Ocean
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Kothari, U. (2014). Political discourses of climate change and migration: Resettlement
policies in the Maldives
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Malatesta, S., & di Friedberg, M. S. (2017). Environmental policy and climate change
vulnerability in the Maldives: from the'lexicon of risk'to social response to change
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Pijpe, J., Voogt, A., Oven, M., Henneman, P., Gaag, K. J., Kayser, M., & Knijff, P. (2013).
Indian Ocean crossroads: human genetic origin and population structure in the Maldives
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Sovacool, B. K. (2012). Expert views of climate change adaptation in the Maldives
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Sovacool, B. K. (2012). Perceptions of climate change risks and resilient island planning
in the Maldives
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Quinn, N. J., & Zahir, H. (2013). Assessment of coral cover on Maldivian reefs after the
1998 bleaching event and 2004 tsunami
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Sovacool, B. K. (2011). Hard and soft paths for climate change adaptation
Data Type
The types of data I would expect to use for my research largely depends on the topic. I
would require quantitative data to assess the possible submergence of the Maldives and the
impending catastrophic consequences of global warming on the submergence and displacement of
the Maldives inhabitants. Survey and ethnographic fieldworks are likely to assist me in gathering
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quantitative data for the proposed research. I will be interested in the environmental condition of
the Maldives as well as the climatic changes in the Island. Besides, data on the size of the Maldives
population and its demographic characteristics are expected to give a rough estimate of the
magnitude of the damage by a potential submergence. The problems I may encounter researching
the topic include vagaries of nature, rejection by the locals, and lack of cooperation from the
relevant authorities. I may drown in the Indian Ocean, the locals may be apprehensive about my
presence during ethnographic fieldwork, and the authorities may conceal the most crucial
population data.
Contribution of the Results
The importance of the analysis and bibliography in understanding the submergence of the
Maldives cannot be overstated. Foremost, the analysis will reveal the relationship between climate
change and the rise in sea level in the Maldives. This connection will further the understanding of
global warming implications to climate change and thus, its role in the rise of sea water level. The
analysis will also highlight the perceptions and perspectives on climate change in the coastal
islands of Maldives. These viewpoints and perceptions will shed more light on why global
warming is a thorny issue in the flesh of the people of Maldives. Additionally, the population and
environmental analysis will underscore the role of climate change politics and policy discourses
in the expected submergence of the Maldives. Global warming is a serious environmental issue in
the world today and global environmental bodies are seeking the most appropriate and amicable
solutions to global warming. In this respect, the selected previous studies and the analysis of the
results will contribute to the understanding of a problem that the world is currently grappling with
of global warming.
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