国际地理学发展趋向述要

地理学作为一种理论思维是历史的产物,它的中心研究课题是随着时代的进展而不断变化的。因此要从发展观点来认识地理学。再则各国由于国情不同,地理学的发展也具有地域差异性。本文从古代、近代和现代三个发展阶段和西方及苏联两大中心的主要地理思潮加以分析,说明了以上论点。

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHY

What is geography? In the author''s opinion, the geographical ideas, as a historical product, advance and evolve with the progress of epoch. Therefore, geographers should keep a dynamic view in recognizing the discipline they devoted to. As different countries have various historical, physical, social and economic conditions, their geographies are developed according to different models and tackle different problems. So, the development of geography also has areal differentiation among countries. Actually there is no one geography the world over. The author tries to verify his views by analysing the changes of the ancient, the modern and the contemporary geographies and the variances between the W. European, the N. American and the Soviet geographies. The ideas of "quantitative revolution", "theoretical revolution", regional science, Marxist geography, unified geography and the rejuvenation of regional geography are introduced in the paper.