DEVELOPMENT AND PEDIGREE OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY IN NANJING UNIVERSITY
ZHANG Min1,2, HUANG Xian-jin1,3, ZHANG Jie1,3, YAO Lei2
1. Human Geography Research Center of Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
2. Department of Urban Planning and Design in Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
3. School of Geography and Ocean Science in Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Abstract This paper reviews the development process of the human geography research institutions in Nanjing University, summed up that the Nanjing University human geography research institutions consists of three levels of the base layer, application layer, and the joint application layer. Among them, the base layer is mainly composed of basic laboratories, the application layer, including a series of human geography research institutions, joint application layer is compoesed of cooperation research institutions which are established to serve the national strategy and local service. The paper concludes that the discipline of human geography of Nanjing University has four major contributions to the development of China's human geography disciplines, that is (1) the cradle and the hearth of Human Geography in China; (2) the backbone of the ideological and theoretical development of China's human geography; (3) the leader of main branches of discipline construction of China's human geography. Nanjing University is not only leading the development of the traditional disciplines of economic geography, population geography, agricultural geography, political geography, transportation geography, but also of advantage disciplines of urban geography and tourism geography, and of cross-applied science of urban and regional planning, land use, sustainable development. (4) the main body of China's human geography of undertaking the major state projects. Professor Gu Chaolin of Nanjing university is the first winner in the field of Human Geography in China who win the National Natural Science Foundation Fund for Distinguished Young. Nanjing University's Human Geography also undertook Key Projecs of the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Foundation.
2012, Vol. 27 
