新经济时代人文地理学研究的趋势探讨

ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH TREND IN NEW ECONOMY ERA

新经济是以信息革命、知识革命和全球化大市场为特征的经济。在此背景下,人文地理学研究的核心主体——人、地、区域均被赋予了新的内涵,相应地人文地理学也出现了新的研究方向。在新经济时代,人地关系地域系统仍然是人文地理学研究的中心课题;新经济背景下人文地理学更加注重区域可持续发展研究,应用趋向明显;注重区域及其变革研究;新的区位论研究;注重文化地理学、关系地理学和社会地理学的发展以及多学科的交叉融合。最后,本文对新经济背景下人文地理学研究的新方法如地球信息科学、全球价值链分析和行为者网络理论的迅速成长和应用作了探讨。

In the context of new economy, the core elements of human geography research, such as human, land, place and region, have had new meanings, the new research trends have also appeared, and the research fields of human geography have been greatly broadened in emerging topics and research methods. Consequently, there have some new research trends in the man-land relationship, sustainable development, location theory and the regional issues. It is observed that the comprehensive research methodologies and multidisciplinary approaches have been emphasized and the system of man-land relationship is still the central topic in human geography research. The author of the paper, first, elaborates some topics that contemporary human geography mainly focuses on, and then argues that the theory of sustainable development is deepened in terms of the self-organizational structure, the operating mechanism and the optimizing objectives in this system are involved. Moreover, the human geographers pay more attention to issues such as the function and upgrading of the region in the process of the global reconstruction, the new international division of labors, the cluster economy and the regional localization, the impact of globalization in urban and region, the imbalances of economic development, the reconstructing of regional spatial structure, as well as transformation of regional development model on the context of globalization. In the context of the new economy, comprehensive research methodology is widely applied in regional studies, covering national land policies, environmental protection, rational usage of resources, and especially the improvement of human life quality. Also, the human geography studies in the new economic era also emphasize the social geography, cultural geography and relational geography as well as the multidisciplinary integration. Finally, the author points out the clear trend of the research on social and cultural turn and the new research approaches of human geography researches and actor network theory based on the new economy are also discussed.