展望中国人文地理学的发展

中国自改革开放以来,人文地理学得到了复兴,在理论、方法和研究内容方面都有了新的发展,其中尤以经济地理学、城市地理学和旅游地理学的进展较快,原先被视为禁区的政治地理学、文化地理学和社会地理学,也开始出现了一批可喜的成果。目前在中国经济体制转轨的新形势下,中国人文地理学正处于一个重要的转折时期,即面临着严重的挑战,又出现了前所未有的发展机遇。
在迈入21世纪时,作者建议中国人文地理学着重研究以下各课题:
(1)为充实中国人文地理学的基础理论,研究人地关系地域系统;
(2)为配合(中国21世纪议程)的实施,研究全国和各地区社会经济的持续发展;
(3)以土地利用为中心来研究全球变化和人类活动的关系;
(4)从节约利用和保护资源出发,研究地区自然资源系统;
(5)为发扬中国地理学的传统,更认真地为农业服务,研究促进农业和农村的持续发展问题;
(6)从理论和方法上提高区域地理研究的水平、并配合国家任务,开展区域综合发展的研究,包括国家和各省经济建设的重点区、海域、生态脆弱区等。

PROSPECT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY IN CHINA

In China,since the implementation of reform and open door policies, human geography has got rejuvenated, and much progress has been made in its theory, method and research contents. Of its branch sciences,economic geography,urban geography and geography of tourism are the most active ones,and political geography,social geography and cultural geopraphy, which were regarded as "forbiden areas" before, have been broken through, and have pro duced encouraging results. Now under the influence of diverting from planned economy to market economy, human geography is facing new challenges while winning unprecedented development opportunities.Stepping forward into the 21st century, the emphasis of human geographiccal studies, as the author suggests, should be put on the following topics:(1) for reinforcing the basic theory of human geography, to study the area system of man -nature relationship;(2) for coordinating with the realization of the "21st Agenda for China",to study the social and ecomic sustainable development of the country and various regions;(3) to study the relations between human activities and global changes,taking land-use as its central item;(4) from the point of view of saving and protecting resources, to study area natural resources system;(5)carrying forward the Chinese tradition of serving agriculture, to study the way of promoting sustainable development of agriculture and rural settle ments;(6)in order to raise the level of reginal geography in theory and practice and to meet the tasks saigned by governmental agencies,to studythe compre hensive development of various regions,including the main developing regions,the sea territory,and the crucial zones.