摘要
２１世纪科学技术和知识将取代资本与劳动成为经济增长和社会发展的主导因子。知识经济时代所需求的经济增长方式，资本、信息、资源的配置格局，以及生命支撑系统的服务功能将与工业时代有很大的不同。这些变化对地理学综合研究大发展既是挑战又是机遇。本文从地理学综合研究的迫切性入手，分析了在知识经济时代综合研究的不同层次及可能涉及的领域。在此基础上，提出了地理学综合研究应在四个方面进一步深化和革新以适应知识经济时代的需求：①拓展地理综合研究的空间；②构建要素综合的非均衡观；③充分考虑科技和知识对自然和社会经济系统的强势作用；④逐步整合社会经济系统和自然环境系统。
Knowledge based economy raises serious issues for geographer: What are tasks of new comprehensive study? What are new methods and techniques used in solving more complicated problems? In an attempt to answer these questions, we indicate that it is important to identify the effects caused by knowledge based economy on socioeconomic and natural environmental systems. The agricultural age was based on plows and animals that pulled them; the industrial age, on engines and the fuels that fed them. The knowledge based economy age we are now creating will be based on knowledge and men that master and apply it. Compared with capital, resource and labor, knowledge and scientific technology will play a more important role in economic growth and social development in knowledge based economy age. As a result, the shift of the object, scope and methods of geographical comprehensive study is inevitable. In this paper, we offer straightforward explanation of knowledge based economy and provide insight into its effects on geography. To fashion the present geographical comprehensive study into knowledge based economy, we recommend such modifications as integrating socio economic and environmental system, establishing virtual geographical space and internalizing external factors. Knowledge based economy is opening up new realms for geographer. By fusing traditional methods and technologies, geographer can create new comprehensive field that will profoundly reshape geography.
出处
《地理科学进展》
CSCD
1998年第3期17-22,共6页
Progress in Geography
基金
中国科学院KZ951-B1-203项目
关键词
知识经济
地理学
经济增长
虚拟空间
knowledge based economy, comprehension, geography, economic growth, virtual geographical space
