首先评述了目前人地关系研究概况,指出这些研究成果多缺乏具体的可操作措施,界定了人地关系的内涵和研究内容,接着从自然村域的角度设计了区域人地关系的定量研究思路,包括人地关系内部作用机理、单村研究、多村比较研究及不同空间尺度研究的推绎等,最后指出区域人地关系定量研究应结合有关技术

Man-land relationship is the key content of human geography research. Man-land relationship comes to the earth surface of natural and human elements interacting, both specialists in human geography and ones in physical geography have laid emphasis on the theme. In the West, it comes to many views, such as geography environment determinism, probablism, sightism, human bionomics, modulatism, and so on. However those present accomplishments are all short of concrete maneuverabilities after the author's appraising the later documents of regional man-land relationship. These characteristics consist of objectivity, regionalization, period characteristic, complexity, opening characteristic, dynamic relevancy, arrangement characteristic, adjustment characteristic and so on. Then the author gives man-land relationship's confine and research contents, including:① scientific base of selecting nature village after comparing household, nature village, town;②sample village on the bases of difference standards, such as different economic levels, different industrial structures, different ground types, and so on. ③data collection and disposal, such as physical data, investigating data, statistic data, and so on. data disposal including reasonable index system, statistic data spatialization and continuum and so on;④interior interacting mechanism of regional man-land relationship system, such as its state characterization, dynamic change analyzing, type comparation, track of man's influence on land, simulation and forecast of man-land system, finding out scientific scheme of the system and so on;⑤simple village analysis,describing the state of man-land system; ⑥comparatively study on many villages, describing the change, difference types, variety process and so on. At the last, the author puts forward that the research of man-land relationship is tremendous systems engineering, that any subject can't bring the question to success by oneself, we should adopt many subjects' advantages and study it from the angle of middle sight. However the research has to combine with related techniques in order to widen its fields and result in better results, such as Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS), Global Position System (GPS), Expert System (ES), Virtual Reality (VR), Internet, Spatial Analysis (SA) and mapping technique and so on.