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Approaches To Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Research In Land Change Science And Environmental Management, Eva Kinnebrew, Elizabeth Shoffner, Aldo Farah-Pérez, Megan Mills-Novoa, Katherine Siegel

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Combining qualitative and quantitative methods and data is crucial to understanding the complex dynamics and often interdisciplinary nature of conservation. Many conservation scientists use mixed methods, but there are a variety of mixed methods approaches, a lack of shared vocabulary, and few methodological frameworks. We reviewed articles from 2 conservation-related fields that often incorporate qualitative and quantitative methods: land-change science (n= 16) and environmental management (n= 16). We examined how authors of these studies approached mixed-methods research by coding key methodological characteristics, including relationships between method objectives, extent of integration, iterative interactions between methods, and justification for use of mixed …