知识经济时代的区域地理学创新

The Innovaton of Regional Geography in Knowledge Economy Era

区域地理学研究充分体现了地理学的地域性和综合性 ,并不断将自然科学与社会科学结合起来综合研究区域中出现的各种实践问题。知识经济的来临将从多方面影响区域地理学研究 ,也将为其提供新的研究领域。因此 ,区域地理学需要创新、扩展自身的研究领域并不断提高解决实际问题的能力 ,以适应知识经济时代的要求。

The regionality and integration of geography is embodied by regional geography study. With the regional geography, we can integrate natural science and social science to approach the issues of a region. The knowledge economy will influence regional geography study from different aspects and provide new research field. Thus the academic innovation, the expansion of research field, and the improvement of the ability to solve the practical problems are all essential to regional geography in the new era. In this paper, the author also analyzed four motive forces of regional development in the new era, and based on the analysis, the innovation direction of regional geography is also proposed.