欧美景观地理学的新进展及其启示

文章从文化景观、景观概念、景观解释、景观与文化、景观政治学等方面阐述了欧美景观地理学的新进展。目前,欧美文化地理学正在重新整合,文化景观研究是其核心。针对景观的不同用法(艺术上的,社会科学上的),提出了4种专业化的景观解释模型。景观政治学是新文化地理学的关键建设领域,甚至有人把它当作景观解释的中心。地理学者对文学的兴趣日益增加,并将不同的文学形式看作是研究景观意义的途径。

New Progress of Landscape Geography in the United Kingdom and the United States

In this paper the development of landscape geography in England and the United States is discussed under the following headings: cultural landscape within the context of a resynthesis of cultural geography, the meaning of the term landscape, the models of landscape interpretation, and the politics of landscape. The cultural geography in the west is re_synthesized since 1980s, with cultural landscape research the focus. There are two commonly uses of landscape concept, one is artic, and the other is in social science. There are four professional interpretation models of cultural landscape. The politics of landscape is a key construction area of new cultural geography, which is even considered the core of landscape interpretation. The interest of geographers toward literature is increasing, the different forms of literature are used as ways of studying landscape.