创新地理学——一门新兴的地理学分支学科

知识经济时代，创新成为人类社会，经济，政治活动的核心，在这种情况下，传统的地理学正受着来自学科自身的来自实践需要的双重挑战，以人地系统为研究对象的地理学，该如何适应这一变化并作出创造性选择呢？文章用唯物辨证法的观点，对这一问题进行了思索，并适时地提出了创新地理学这一新概念，阐述了创新地理学的产生背景，研究意义，研究对象及其内容。

Innovative Geography —— a New Branch of Geography

Innovation has become the new core part of social, economic and political activities. Under this background, geography is faced with new challenge which came from itself and the practice. How can geography adapt itself to the new economic forms and make some creative decision? From the view of dialectics, the authors review the new development trend, and advance innovative geography, then discuss the significance, research objects and research contents.