中国北方农牧交错带的历史地理研究实践

The Researches of Historical Geography in the Farming-pastoral Ecotone in Northern China

北方农牧交错带课题的独特性与现代学术研究旨趣关系紧密,是区域民族史、环境史、全球变化等前沿问题的综合性学术田野。对北方农牧交错带历史现场进行重现,不仅是对特殊区域社会演进动态的历史关心,也是对区域生态治理与社会治理的现实关心,更是对我国东西部发展不平衡矛盾、国家生态安全及生态文明建设等重要议题的未来关心。自20世纪60年代以来,历史地理学研究者参与到北方农牧交错带相关问题的研究中,充分发挥学科优势,运用文献记载、考古成果等代用证据,深入实践区域历史地理学理论和方法,对区域典型地区历史自然地理、历史城市地理、区域人地互动等专题进行了深入地探讨。历史地理学对北方农牧交错带研究的贡献主要表现在对农牧交错带概念不断深入挖掘与拓宽、推动区域研究时空范围的延展、弥补区域研究方法的不足等多方面。而得益于北方农牧交错带历史地理课题的丰富性、多样性和特殊性,历史地理学学科思想、研究理论、研究方法和手段也得到了长足的实践与发展。

The uniqueness of the topic of the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China is closely related to the interest of modern academic research.It is a comprehensive academic field of regional ethnic history,environmental history,global change,and other cutting-edge issues.Recreating the historical scene of the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China is not only a historical concern for the dynamics of social evolution in the special region,but also a practical concern for regional ecological and social governance,and a future concern for such important issues as the development imbalance between the east and west,national ecological security,and the construction of an ecological civilization in China.Since the 1960s,researchers in historical geography have been involved in the study of issues related to the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China,making full use of the advantages of the discipline,using documentary records,archaeological findings,and other alternative evidence,practicing in-depth theories and methods of regional historical geography,and conducting in-depth discussions on the topics of historical physical geography of typical areas in the region,historical urban geography,and regional interaction between people and land.The contribution of historical geography to the study of the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China is mainly manifested in the continuous deepening and broadening of the concept of the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China,in the promotion of the extension of the spatial,temporal scope of regional research,and in the compensation of the short.