地理环境与社会发展

本文运用现代科学方法论的理论观点，在史地结合的层面上，对地理环境与社会发展的辩证关系进行了深入分析。认为地理环境不仅是社会发展的外部条件（背景与舞台、物质能量前提），而且是社会发展的内在因素（生产力的重要成分），它对社会发展的作用具有动态性和复杂性。在对传统观念反思的基础上提出了一些新的见解。     

北京社会极化与空间分异研究

本文论述了北京近年来经济体制改革和社会主义市场经济制度运行对城市社会结构的影响，尤其集中在：１．城市社会极化及其动力机制；２．新城市贫困现象及其原因；３城市社会空间分异及其人变化趋势等。     

SOCIAL BARRIERS TO RENEWABLE ENERGY LANDSCAPES*

After many years of slow progress, we find that worldwide environmental, political, and economic pressures are providing greater purchase for the accelerated development of renewable energy. Although many people would consider this quickening pace good news, the transition from conventional resources has encountered public resistance. In this article I examine the nature of challenges to the development of geothermal, wind, and solar energy projects in three places: the United States, Scotland, and Mexico. The common thread in the public reservations about renewable energy is landscape change and the consequent disruption such change produces to established ways of life for those who are nearby. It also suggests the importance of rebalancing the emphasis of renewable energy programs away from the traditional technical focus that dominates development planning. The more suitable and expedient approach would be to consider the challenges of development as predominantly social matters with technical components, rather than the other way around. To accept this view is to unlock the door to a renewable energy future.     

地理信息系统应用与社会背景分析

随着社会信息化的加速发展,地理信息系统应用不断扩大与深化.本文综合分析GIS产业化、大型系统的建立、应用特点和地域差别等问题,并对其社会背影进行探讨,认为信息高速公路和区域持续发展为GIS发展提供了巨大动力,一个新的GIS应用热潮即将到来.