Australian Geography and Geographic Information Systems

In Australian universities geography has had traditional links with geology, environmental science and the social sciences. Human geographers’ pursuit of links into the humanities has distracted many of them from understanding the implications of the increasing interest shown by computer science, geomatics and other disciplines in geography. The emergence of a dialogue overseas between the humanities and the geographic information systems community is an important development which may result in this new grouping colonising some of the traditional disciplinary areas of human geography. It is clear that although this emerging cross‐disciplinary linkage has not had any influence on the current phase of mergers and cross‐disciplinary linkages in Australia, it will undoubtedly become important locally in the future.     

历史货币地理研究刍议

作为历史经济地理学的重要分支,历史货币地理研究迄今未引起学术界的充分关注。围绕历史货币地理研究的理论体系进行建构,无疑是非常有意义的尝试。我们对历史货币地理研究的对象、具体内容、与其他学科的相互关系、研究方法等问题进行了理论探讨,并提出了开创中国历史货币地理研究的建议,主张对先秦以来中国货币制度中长期存在的货币地域性问题进行全面而系统的研究。     

A Measurement Theory for Time Geography

Hägerstrand's time geography is a powerful conceptual framework for understanding constraints on human activity participation in space and time. However, rigorous, analytical definitions of basic time geography entities and relationships do not exist. This limits abilities to make statements about error and uncertainty in time geographic measurement and analysis. It also compromises comparison among different time geographic analyses and the development of standard time geographic computational tools. The time geographic measurement theory in this article consists of analytical formulations for basic time geography entities and relations, specifically, the space–time path, prism, composite path-prisms, stations, bundling, and intersections. The definitions have arbitrary spatial and temporal resolutions and are explicit with respect to informational assumptions: there are clear distinctions between measured and inferred components of each entity or relation. They are also general to n- dimensional space rather than the strict two-dimensional space of classical time geography. Algebraic solutions are available for one or two spatial dimensions, while numeric (but tractable) solutions are required for some entities and relations in higher dimensional space.     

Toward a Transcendental Human Geography of Places*

The behaviorist research paradigm represented in human geography is anachronistic and manifestly inappropriate for explaining the results of human activities, such as distinctly constructed cultural landscapes. Phenomenological method is appropriate for explaining human actions on an individual scale, but is not applicable as it stands to the group or regional scale investigated by geography. The suggested technique adapts the fragmented reference plain featured by both phenomenology and relativity-based explanation in physics, to afford justifiable explanations of cultural phenomena.     

参与式历史地理研究：理论、方法与评价

<正>一引言文献的匮乏长期以来制约着传统历史地理学科的良性发展(1),加上历史地理文献往往归属在其他文献类别之下且零落、分散,研究者搜集历史地理资料的过程往往需要花费更多时间和精力(2)。以竞争、创新为核心的新科研机制更使得传统历史地理学科受到严峻挑战(3)。近年来各国政府缩减人文学科研究经费,对研究的社会、经济意义作出诸多硬性规定,很多历史地理研究因不能产生显著的即时     

On Some Problems of Theory and Practice in Economic Geography

The author, an opponent of Anuchin's views, charges that the discussion around the theory of a unified geography has been diverting the attention of the Geography Faculty of Moscow University away from practical tasks contributing to the growth of the national economy. Vol'skiy restates the Marxist theory of economic geography and calls on economic geographers for more constructive contributions to Communist economic development.     

新修清史《地理志》的学术理论与编纂实践

今天新修清史,继承历代纂修正史的传统,设立的<地理志>是不可或缺的重要组成部分.<地理志>将在充分利用各种史料、吸收现有清代地理志书成果基础上进行,充分借鉴历代正史地理志优点,全面反映有清一代疆域、政区、山川、关隘、土贡等地理要素的沿革和变迁,从而不仅可望超越<清史稿·地理志>,而且可以、并且能够达到二十一世纪初清史地理研究的新水平.     

论克利福德·达比的区域历史地理学理论与实践

克利福德·达比 (Clifford Darby,190 9- 1992 ) ,著名英国历史地理学家 ,对英国历史地理学的发展做出了杰出贡献 ,他的学术思想也影响到中国现代历史地理学的形成与发展。达比一生的学术研究工作基本可以分为四个方面 :1.英国东南部沼泽地 (The Fenland)研究 ;2 .《清册地理》研究 ;3.英格兰历史地理研究 ;4 .历史地理学方法论的探讨。本文从这四个方面对达比的区域历史地理学理论与实践做了系统评述