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gec-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Global Environmental Change (GEC) manuscript — quantitative causal inference, qualitative case work and process tracing, experiments and surveys, or mixed-methods integration. GEC welcomes methodological pluralism but judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (gec-research-design)
GEC is methodologically pluralist: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods work are all welcome,
provided each is rigorous and connects the **conceptual framework** (`gec-conceptual-framework`) to
evidence about the human dimensions of environmental change. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section
that matches your work and defend it against the strongest alternative explanation.
## When to trigger
- Specifying identification, case selection, sampling, or instrument design
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, case choice, generalization, scale mismatch, or a confound
- Designing a mixed-methods study and needing to justify the integration
- Justifying how the design tests the framework's mechanism
