关键词: 人文地理学, 发展空间, 素质要求, 中国

Abstract:

This paper tries to analyze the vast demands for knowledge of human geography from national socio-economic development and environmental management in China in the new century. It reveals that such demands have been driving the quick development of human geography in China, not only in traditional areas, but also in such new areas as regional responses to global change, regional and urban sustainable development, and the spatial restructuring enabled by economic globalization and progress in information and communication technologies. It also argues that the disciplinary nature of human geography calls for further acquiring of fundamental knowledge in both natural and social sciences by human geographers. Finally, it suggests that human geographers carry forward their advantage of possessing a comprehensive knowledge structure, base their researches on the territorial system of human-nature and regional and urban sustainable development, and make more use of database, modeling and other new technical approaches.

Key words: human geography, development potentials, qualification for research, China