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| DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHY: MODEL, IMPETUS AND TRENDS |
| PAN Yu-jun, WU You-de |
| College of Tourism and Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, China |
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Abstract With a Impetus System consisting of geographic environment, human needs or social development, scientific techniques, philosophical thoughts, scientific community and great geographists, geography has developed its such development models with tynical characters as Scientific development Model of Inductionalism, Scientific Development Model of proving-it-faulse and Scientific development Model of Kuhn. Geography will display its comprehensiveness better in 21st century through establishing and oprating the basic concept---coordinated Commensalism of Human and Environment relationship Regional System, and has such development trends as deepening the integration of related subjects internalizing development, improving micromechanism, widening applying region, renewing methods and paying more attention on methodology.
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Received: 29 October 2001
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2002, Vol. 17 
