THE PRELIMINARY STUDY ON HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF HUMAN-LAND RELATIONSHIP IN THE EXTREMELY ARID AREA——Taking Talimu Basin for example
XIE Hong-bin1, ZHONG Wei2
1. Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing 210008, China;
2. Department of Resource Environment and Information Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
Abstract：Probing on the whole developing process of the relationship between the ecological environment and human activity in the extremely arid areas in the long human development history, we can find that the human-land relationship has changed along with the shift of time and space on the background of the physical change of climate and ecological environment. On one hand, historically from the primitive society to the agricultural society, then to the industrial society and the post-industrial society, the human-land relationship has gone through four development phases:dependent on nature, interfering and complying with nature,interfering with nature,pro active and coordinating to nature, which are determined by the increase of productive activity, improvement of the productive tools and technology. On the other hand, from the point of space the human-relationship is that human beings have shifted their living space and activity close to the place which is endowed with abundant water resource. Thus, regarding the change of climate and ecological environment as the background and the water resource as core line, each phase shows the evolving characteristics of human-land relationship according to the shift of time and space. The human-land relationship in Talimu River Basin has been affected by both physical and artificial factors; while the physical influencing factors such as the climate change and the water resource conditions were distinguished in the long human history. However, as time goes on, the human activity factors have exerted more and more important and significant impacts on the ecological and environmental changes along with the more and more intensive human activity in this area. According to the destruction of water system, waning of water resource, desertification and the decrease of vegetation area in Talimu River basin during the past several decades, which obviously resulted from and heavily impacted by the growth of population, exploitation of the oasis, agriculture irrigation, disafforestation, over-husbandry as well as expansion of industrialization etc., we can draw the conclusion that the human activity will be playing dominant role gradually in this region on the course of evolution of human-land relationship.
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XIE Hong-bin, ZHONG Wei. THE PRELIMINARY STUDY ON HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF HUMAN-LAND RELATIONSHIP IN THE EXTREMELY ARID AREA——Taking Talimu Basin for example. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2002, 17(2): 67-69,66.
