Content of THEORY DEVELOPMENT in our journal

  • Published in last 1 year
  • In last 2 years
  • In last 3 years
  • All

Please wait a minute...
  • Select all
    |
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    CHANG Xiao-dong, WANG Shi-jun, FENG Zhang-xian, HAO Fei-long, GUAN Hao-ming, YANG Zhi-peng, LI Ke
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(5): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.05.001
    This paper analyzes the theoretical connotation and complex characteristics of common prosperity, constructs the geographical mechanism framework of common prosperity, and reviews the regional practice process of China 's common prosperity, with a view to contributing geography to the Chinese-style modernization of the connotation of common prosperity. The study found that: 1) 'Development' and 'equilibrium' are the theoretical basis of common prosperity. 2) Common prosperity has four complex characteristics: comprehensive and factor trade-off, regional and multi-scale governance, dynamic and time correlation, spatial and non-spatial multi-agent. 3) Since the reform and opening up, China 's regional practice of common prosperity has shown remarkable performance in regions, urban-rural areas, and groups. 4) Geography has broad application prospects in promoting the process of common prosperity, which can promote the realization of the goal of common prosperity through strategic interactions with ecological civilization, territorial space planning, and digital economy.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    NIU Cai-cheng, ZHANG Wen-jia
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(5): 12-22,60. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.05.002
    Behavioral geography explores the interactions between human behavior and geographical environments from a micro-scale perspective, providing a foundation for understanding micro-level humanenvironment relations. However, traditional behavioral geography paradigms face significant limitations when analyzing complex human-environment interactions, particularly in the context of China’s new urbanization phase that emphasizes human-centered and sustainable development. This paper reviews the current development challenges in behavioral geography and examines the theoretical background and disciplinary influence of the relational turn, attempting to reconstruct the theoretical and analytical framework of behavioral geography from a relational perspective. We identify three key challenges: the predominant focus on static relationships between individuals and environment while overlooking social networks and interactions; the disconnect between macro and micro-scale analyses; and the limitations of traditional data collection methods in capturing complex behavioral patterns. The proposed framework emphasizes placing individuals within the macro-structural context of social relationships, establishing a cross-scale research paradigm that bridges micro-individual behaviors and macro-geographical phenomena through network analysis. By investigating micro-scale individual spatiotemporal behaviors from a network lens, this approach reveals broader societal patterns that conventional micro-scale approaches might overlook.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    GUO Jian-ke, ZHU Ying-yu, CHENG Ye-qing, LIU Tian-bao
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(5): 23-32,132. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.05.003
    As a type of village, fishing village has rich cultural heritage and ecological resources, which attracts a large number of scholars to study in recent years. Current research on the construction of beautiful fishing villages mainly focuses on four aspects, namely evaluating village resources, providing public services, promoting transformation and reconstruction for development, and planning the construction of new fishing villages.However, the related research as a whole is still in the primary stage of fragmentation. Accordingly, this paper begins by examining the implications and objectives of developing aesthetically pleasing fishing villages, conducts preliminary sorting and construction of the geographic framework and research methodology system of the construction of beautiful fishing villages, and ultimately proposes novel avenues for research concerning the development of aesthetically pleasing fishing villages: the systematic integration and planning of resources within fishing villages, alongside the consideration of their landscapes and the preservation of regional cultural heritage, are essential, the livelihoods of fisherfolks and the transformational development of the fishing villages, and the construction and governance of human settlements in fishing villages aim to serve as a reference for research on the development of aesthetically pleasing fishing villages.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    WANG Lin-ting, YUAN Yuan
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(4): 78-87. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.04.008
    The health effects of environmental exposure and related social inequalities have received increasing attention. Feminist geography offers a theoretical lens that moves beyond traditional spatial analysis to highlight group identities and socio-environmental disparities. Drawing on this perspective, this study employs bibliometric tools to map two decades of research. Grounded in the interaction between gendered bodies and environments, it identifies multi-level health mechanisms and proposes a feminist-informed theoretical framework. The field has shifted from broad discussions of space, body, and gender to intersectional inequalities in specific contexts, especially among marginalized groups. Health is now seen as a multidimensional construct encompassing perception and lived experience. Three major research clusters have emerged, focusing on neighborhood, mobile, and perceived environmental exposures. Gendered differences intersect with intra-group disparities to shape unequal health outcomes. Future research should develop contextspecific health interventions to foster inclusive urban well-being.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    CAI Xiao-mei, LIU Si-cen, WU Yong-qi, XIANG feng
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(3): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.03.001
    In the context of the new mobility paradigm,the politics of mobility has become a hotspot of human geography research in domestically and abroad. The politics of mobility refers to a pluralistic, dynamic and complex power relationship formed by mobile subjects in the process of mobility in different spaces in order to realize the control or resistance of mobility, and which has produced corresponding spatial results in many aspects such as economy, politics, culture and ecology. Based on this, the empirical study of the politics of mobility from the perspective of human geography mainly includes the mobility of the politics of mobility,the politics of the politics of mobility, and the spatial outcomes of the politics of mobility. The following are findings of the research: 1) It is the mobility the premise of the politics of mobility. In terms of crosstime and inter-scale,The motility and resources of the mobile subject will change over time and space, while the power relations between the mobility subjects are produced and reproduced in the process of interaction and interplay. 2) The politics, specifically referring to the control and resistance, is the core connotation of the politics of mobility. 3)The duality of the politics of mobility creates differentiated spatial results in economic, political, cultural and ecological aspects.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    HU Xiao-hui, HE Zhi-qian, XU Ji-li
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(1): 1-8,67. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.01.001
    In the post-crisis era, regional economic resilience studies have progressively formed an ideological system around "evolutionary resilience". In order to capture the emerging dynamics and particularly the perspective turn of regional economic resilience studies, this paper carries out a quantitative analysis of 340 articles included in the scientific citation database Web of Science from 2008 to 2023 and deploys CiteSpace software to do a knowledge mapping. The key research findings are: 1) the number of articles on regional economic resilience accelerates over the last two decades or so, especially after the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, and forms a core author group and cooperation networks around Europe; 2) mainstream studies still follow the evolutionary resilience paradigm, focusing on the regional endogenous structure and actor agencies that affect the characters, processes, and mechanisms of economic resilience; 3) However, emerging studies have debated that the evolutionary resilience paradigm is increasingly difficult to satisfactorily explain the regional economic resilience issue against the global political and economic changes, and studies under the relational perspective thus begin to gain momentum.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    HOU Xue-feng, TAO Wei
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(1): 9-17,192. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.01.002
    Livelihood is intricately connected to rural development and rural research, playing a pivotal role in assisting rural households in poverty alleviation, examining agricultural dynamics, and addressing rural development issues. In the face of the increasingly tense contradiction between locally focused sustainable livelihood approaches and the fluidity of networked societies, the renowned livelihood scholar Scoones proposed that scale be considered a central element of livelihood approaches. This necessitates livelihood research to transcend the confines of local spaces and interpret livelihood from a translocal perspective, which has become the focal point and developmental direction of current livelihood research. Translocal livelihood has found wide applications in elucidating rural development, migration, resilience, climate change, and other domains, offering significant theoretical and practical value. This article systematically reviews the origins, essence, key elements, and research topics of translocal livelihood, and based on this groundwork, constructs a research framework for translocal livelihood, holding critical implications for advancing the paradigm of livelihood research and implementing rural revitalization strategies.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    WEI Jun-feng, MING Qing-zhong
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(1): 18-25. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.01.003
    As a theoretical movement of reflection on the "nature-society" dichotomy that emerged in Western human geography at the end of the 20th century, the social construction of nature considers that nature is essentially the social nature. It provides a new opportunity for geography to deepen the human-land relationship from the unity and hybridity of socio-nature, provides a new perspective for insight into the increasingly systematic and in-depth socio-ecological transformation, provides a new paradigm for promoting the harmony between man and nature, and provides a new topic for the advancement of geography and philosophy to be combined in a more systematic way, and thus has become a key theme of the Western human geography community and was introduced to China in 2017. In order to further deepen the relevant research, this paper examines the meaning of the term "nature", reviews the context in which the "social construction of nature" was proposed, its theoretical propositions and the relevant studies at home and abroad, and proposes several possible research directions for the future in China. The study found that: 1) The "nature" in the social construction of nature mainly refers to the the external, material world itself. 2) The theory of the social construction of nature considers "nature" as a hybrid and inseparable socio-nature. 3) Focusing on such topics as the process of social construction of nature, social construction of nature and space/place, and the ethics of social construction of nature, relevant studies in China reveal that in the process of social construction of nature, the discourse construction of nature and the material practice of nature are interrelated, and that the constructed nature will be embedded into the local society again. 4) In the context of the localization of the theory of social construction of nature, we should pay more attention to the construction of nature in the value realization of ecological products in China.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    QIAO Wen-yi, ZHONG Tian-ze, HUANG Xian-jin
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(5): 1-12,95. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.05.001
    As an effective means to coordinate and control development and construction activities, territorial spatial planning has emerged as hot topics due to its key role in alleviating human-land conflicts and achieving sustainable development. On the basis of reviewing the development of territorial spatial planning, this paper systematically summarizes the characteristics and main research topics of China's territorial spatial planning research in the past 20 years based on bibliometric analysis and literature review methods. At the same time, this paper expounds the main challenges faced by the current research on territorial spatial planning in China, and proposes the main development directions in the future. The main conclusions are as follows: 1) The development of territorial spatial planning in China is deeply influenced by the governance environment and policies. 2) Since 1990, the attention of territorial spatial planning research has been increasing, and the number of related papers has increased exponentially. 3) The hot spots of related research are the construction of land and spatial planning system, ecological protection and index system, urban and rural planning and other special planning. 4) There are increasing in diversity and integration of research content, which can be summarized into four aspects: Theoretical research, planning system and technical method research, land space use control research and response to important strategies.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    WANG Fan, WANG Ming-feng, ZHANG Ying-hao, KUANG Ai-ping, LIN Juan
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(5): 13-19,43. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.05.002
    Whether in developed industrial or post-industrial economies, the development of rural and underdeveloped areas is a continuing challenge throughout the world. In digital rural research, Europe and the United States have not paid particular attention to the use of the Internet as a tool to enhance rural productivity. In contrast, in developing countries such as China, where urbanisation is still insufficient, there is a strong desire for economic development in marginal urban areas and remote rural areas. Based on the study of the interaction between ICT and rural area development, this paper summarizes the mediating and connecting roles played by ICT in removing spatial friction and virtual barriers in rural areas, summarizes the specific application scenarios of digital technology in the rural social and economic dimensions, and outlines the impacts of digital technology on the changes in rural man-land relationships. Digital technologies have not only enhanced the economic and social resilience of the countryside, but also transformed its spatial and ecological resilience. With the rapid penetration of ICT changes and their applications into all aspects of rural socio-economic development, digital rural research must keep pace with new trends. The topics of cuttingedge applications of digital technologies, digital technologies and consumer accessibility, and the convergence of technologies other than e-commerce deserve continued focus.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    HU Xiao-liang, LIU Bing, ZHANG Xiao-lin, LI Ting-yun
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(5): 20-26. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.05.003
    Rural economic transformation is an integral aspect of rural development and a significant research domain within the field of rural restructuring and transformation. Drawing upon human geographical concepts such as place, scale, and space, this paper focuses on three key dimensions: "urban-rural" "globallocal" and "agglomeration-dispersion". By integrating relevant theories from Western rural geography and economic geography, it comprehensively examines the changes in the rural economy of developed countries in the West during the process of globalization. Results show that the paradigm of "productionism/postproductionism" assumes a sequential progression from a less developed to a more advanced stage in rural economic transformation, yet fails to effectively capture its intrinsic characteristics. The rural economic transformation, viewed through the lens of human geography, should be considered as a synchronic spatial process involving interactions between various countries and regions on a global scale. This paper initially establishes an initial cross-scale framework covering micro local, meso regional (between urban and rural areas), and macro global (between different countries and regions) for rural economic transformation analysis, with a specific focus on comprehensively assessing the impact of relevant factors across all scales and understanding the intricate transmission dynamics between different scales. This framework serves as a solid foundation for future research endeavors aimed at investigating specific issues pertaining to rural economic transformation.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    TANG Mao-lin
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(4): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.04.001
    Academic dialogue is one of the preconditions and guarantees for the healthy development of academics. Academic translation and taking part in international conferences are important ways for Chinese scholars to talk with the world academic. Although this kind of dialogue with international academic circles is important, the interaction and dialogue between domestic disciplines and sub-disciplines or research approaches are more important and often ignored by Chinese scholars. Dialogue between disciplines is an important mechanism to ensure the healthy development of science, and this kind of dialogue is particularly important for geography (geography is positioned as a bridge discipline), and helps to improve the social identity and discipline status of human geography. The basic forms of academic dialogues include academic seminars, literature reviews in papers, theses and monogoraphes, review papers, project proposals, and debate between journal author(s) and peer experts. The communication and dialogues within a discipline are equally important, involving strengthening the dialogue and confrontation between different research approaches, improving the discussion links of academic seminars, and strengthening academic book reviews. In order to fulfill the mission of human geography, we need to pay close attention to various forms of academic dialogue, to eliminate misunderstandings, to enhance the consensus among scholars, to make more efforts in explanatory progress and conceptual progress, to tolerate academic criticism, and seriously to absorb the beneficial components of academic criticism, and to promote the knowledge production and disciplinary progress.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    TAO Wei, LIN Ke-feng, TANG Pei, LIANG Jin-feng
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(4): 9-18. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.04.002
    Mobility is a way to connect people, things and places. The "mobility turn" in the 1990s triggered a reflection in the academic community on the issue of "mobility", claiming that spatial mobility had richer meanings rather than measuring the cost of time and space. Subsequently, it promoted the proposal and development of "geographies of mobility", in which mobility had become an important geographical concept beyond space, location, network, scale, and territory. As a result, mobility needed to be placed back at the center of geographical research. And then, mobility research attempted to break through the limitations of the traditional disciplinary framework, and thus it proposed a "new mobilities paradigm" and called for multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research with a focus on diversified mobility practices and their meanings. With the increasing attention paid to political issues such as differentiation, imbalance, fairness and justice within mobility practices, the concept of "politics of mobility" has emerged in this process and become an important topic with academic and practical value in the study of new mobilities paradigms. The geographical study of "politics of mobility" in Western literature has gradually become a prominent subject. From the perspective of geography, this paper combines and analyzes existing literature, trying to deepen the understanding of the politics of mobility and reveal its development process and current situation.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    GUO Kai-fei, JIANG Hua-xiong, DAI Te-qi, SONG Jin-ping
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(4): 19-26,159. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.04.003
    As the basic unit of smart city, smart community is the practice of smart city on a smaller scale. This research reviews the research on smart communities in Western countries in the last ten years. It aims to make up for the deficiencies of the discussions in Chinese documents in aspects of basic connotation, development characteristics, components, development goals, and existing problems of smart communities. Review shows that the meaning of smart community is mainly defined from three perspectives: a technical perspective, a human capital perspective, and a social-technical perspective. The components of smart community involve provision of community service, establishment of community facilities, community governance, etc. Smart facilities in communities include information and data of smart facilities such as transportation, energy, home construction and environmental monitoring. Smart community governance refers to the service system developed by using ICT technology and participating in community governance. The field of community smart service is the application of ICT technology to provide residents with various services closely related to their daily lives. There are four development modes of smart community: Government-led, government-enterprise-resident multi cooperation, private drive and community autonomy. The evaluations of smart city are made from two main dimensions-community construction and development and residents' quality of life of the smart community. Meanwhile, smart communities are confronted with problems such as privacy, digital divide, delays in data processing, lack of voice from residents, and lack of long-term management and monitoring. A systematic review of the research on smart communities in Western countries helps to promote the further research and development of smart communities in China.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    FANG Jia-wen, HE Can-fei
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(3): 1-12,24. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.03.001
    As an important carrier of material flow between enterprises,the modern logistics industry,through the construction of transportation infrastructure and the continuous innovation of information and communication technology,provides the impetus and channel for the formation,development,operation,and evolution of global production networks,while the traditional spatial hierarchy is gradually reconstructed. Based on this background,this paper will integrate the theories of "space of flows" and "scale reconstruction",summarize the theoretical and practical studies on the spatial distribution of logistics industry,to explore how the logistics industry as "space of flows" forms and affects the traditional spatial hierarchy. The article first summarizes the core ideas of "space of flows" theory and "scale reconstruction" theory and explores the possibility of their integration,and then sorts out the three development forms of logistics industry,namely,firms (point),cluster (group) and city network (net). In summary,the point and cluster-based logistics research is still from the perspective of "space of places",while the network-based logistics research starts to try to use the idea of "space of flows" theory and use logistics transaction data to restore and identify logistics industry as"space of flows". A small number of studies have begun to explore the role of logistics hub construction in the framework of "scale reconstruction" for regional socio-economic development from the perspective of national strategic planning.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    BA Shi-qi, CHEN Ying, YAO Yu-yang, LI Gan
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(3): 13-24. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.03.002
    Abstract (141) PDF (1012) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Under the background that area studies is listed as a first-level discipline, Small Island Developing States(SIDS) has become a new opportunity for the development and growth of world geography research field in China. The research on Small Island Developing States in domestic academic circles has a strong interdisciplinary nature, which has been involved in multiple subject areas, such as international relations, history, anthropology, sociology, economics, law and literature. From the perspective of geography, the existing research results mainly includes the following four topics: Geopolitics, economic interaction and industrial development, regional response to climate change, cultural geography and social construction. In terms of methods in Small Island Developing States research field, the qualitative research methods are mainly applied to existing research results, while the quantitative methods are single and limited, its advantages of research on Small Island Developing States are not exploited. In addition to this, the advantages of spatial analysis theories and methods in geography research field still need to be further explored and applied. Through literature review and theoretical analysis, the results indicate: In the first place, the Small Island Developing States research is an important medium for dialogue between human geography and area studies, secondly the correlation between different scales is the main perspective of Small Island Developing States research, thirdly the colonial history of these countries is the basic clue that runs through Small Island Developing States research. In the end, this paper draws the international experience and methods of Small Island Developing States research field and puts forward four research prospects for Small Island Developing States research in domestic academic circles from the perspective of the geography.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    GUO Jie, DU Zhi-wei, ZHANG Hong-ou, WANG Kun
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.01.001
    Abstract (140) PDF (1272) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    In the context of increasing globalization, policy mobility has become an important and cuttingedge topic in international human geography, attracting extensive attention from scholars of political economy, post-colonialism and post-structuralism, and generating a wealth of theoretical and empirical research. Based on the critique of the "normative-rational" perspective of political science, geographers have adopted the "relational-constructive" and "topological This paper explores the issues of policy mobility and variation, the uneven geography of policy mobility, and the topological network of policy circulation from a "relational-constructive" and "topological-assemblage" perspective. This paper compares the three shifts in research perspectives on policy mobility and summarizes the core issues, research methods and limitations of different perspectives. It is argued that the study of policy mobility provides both theoretical and methodological implications for rethinking local policy making, innovation diffusion and uneven geographical development in China. Future research should be strengthened in the following areas:(i) The relational, interplace, and cross-scale constructive processes of policy making and knowledge innovation, (ii) the relationship between the diffusion mechanism of policy innovation and geographically uneven development, and (iii) the relationship between territorial governance and policy making in China and the construction of a global policy community.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    CAI Yi, MA Mao-dan, YANG Yang, GONG Zi-yue, PAN Jin-yu
    The body, embedded in the metaphor of social power relations, is the foundation of spatial hierarchy, subjective activity, and practice. However, there is a dearth of academic follow-up on the exploration of the body space of tourist places, compared to the fruitful studies on tourists' embodied experience. The bodyrelated issues of the residents of host communities have not received attention, and the relationship between body and space has not been effectively connected. This study reviews the relevant theories and empirical evidence of body geography, systematically sorts out the progress of body research in the field of tourism, and accordingly suggests a research prospect. The study argues the following. 1) Body geography needs to confront and transcend the effects of the mind-body duality, valuing the relationship between the physicality, mobility, and spatiality of the body, moving from structural and action opposites to inter-construction. 2) Multi-approach studies need to be incorporated into body research to establish a closer connection between the two at the methodological level. 3) Based on further integrating the relationship between body and space, the study of the body should reveal the microscopic practice of "being as space" from the perspective of the macroscopic "body in space" production, and construct the macro from the micro. 4) As the "barometer" and "indicator" of social and cultural changes, the exploration of community residents' body practices is of great significance for the interpretation of social and cultural changes in tourist destinations; thus, future research should pay more attention to the residents of destinations as vital stakeholders.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    TIAN Guang-hui, MIAO Chang-hong, HU Zhi-qiang, YANG Dong-yang, HU Shu-ju
    Abstract (226) PDF (1985) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    The development of regional economy is often impacted or interfered by various shocks at different spatial scales. As a new way of conceptualizing and analyzing how an economic system react to and recover from shocks or disturbances, regional economic resilience has become a prominent subject of academic research. Based on the analysis of the knowledge network of regional economic resilience by CiteSpace 6.1R4, this paper tease out knowledge from the conceptualization, measurement methods and influencing factors of regional economic resilience. After going through the initial stage of conceptualization, the research hot topics tend to be diversified and complicated. The concept and connotation of regional economic resilience includes three interpretive perspectives: engineering, ecology and evolutionary resilience. Where, the implications of evolutionary resilience are broader. Regional economic resilience not only refers to the resistance to shocks, but also refers to the ability of the economic system to recover and transition to a new development path. The measurement methods of regional economic resilience mainly include case comparison method, econometric model, core variable method and comprehensive index evaluation method, each of which has its own applicable research objects, advantages and disadvantages. This paper also focuses on the impact and mechanism of industrial structure, network connectivity, and institutional arrangements on regional economic resilience. Finally, this paper points out the shortcomings and directions in studies on regional economic resilience.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    MO Hui-hui, WANG Jiao-e, HUANG Jie
    Abstract (151) PDF (1442) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    With the rapid development of aviation industry from the 21st century, studies related to air transport geography in China have maintained a steady growth. Base on the systematic analysis, we summarize that China's air transport geography have developed three traditional themes and three emerging themes. Those traditional themes include: 1) Airport system structure and service level, following the conventional stream in transport geography about accessibility and spatial pattern of airport system. 2) Organization and structure characteristics of air transport network, which focuses on spatial pattern of traffic flow, network topology analysis with complex network theory, and features of international market under the Belt and Road Initiative. 3) Interaction between aviation industry and regional economy, including insights from a macroperspective at the regional scale to a micro-perspective such as tourist industry. Those emerging themes include: 1) Exploration on hub airports or airline hubs and corridor resources, which analyzes traffic resource distribution and usage subjecting to the system optimization. 2) Market competition and co-operation of multiple transportation systems, which focus on co-opetition threshold identification with multi-modal competition such as high-speed railway, and analyses on locational diversity of regions or cities. 3) Passenger's travel behavior and airport choice, which not only utilizes survey data but also combine with big data mining technology.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    LIU Wei-wei, LI Mi-mi, JIANG Yi-yi
    Abstract (169) PDF (1372) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    The issue of national identity has existed since the founding of the first nation-states, and globalization has further promoted the development of this issue. The essence of national identity is a social construction, and tourism contributes to this social construction. However, the current studies on national identity and tourism still focus on empirical analysis of various particular cases, and there is a lack of comprehensive review literature, which to a certain extent hinders in-depth discussion of the interaction between national identity and tourism. Through the search results in Web of Science, CNKI, and other databases, this research has sorted out a total of 384 articles regarding national identity and tourism research. The data source for the quantitative analysis is 384 initially screened documents, with the purpose of having an overview of studies on national identity and tourism. From those articles, 120 SSCI and CSSCI papers in the field of tourism were further refined and selected as the core data source of qualitative analysis. On the basis of reviewing the relevant research literature, combined with quantitative and qualitative analysis methods, this paper systematically analyses the research progress of national identity and tourism from the research area, core author, and core literature, research keywords, research topics, research theories, and research methods. In summary, there are many research achievements on national identity and tourism with various theories and research methods.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    XU Shao-gui, HAN Jia-yu, CHEN Huan, ZHANG Mu
    Abstract (259) PDF (1392) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Rural elites are important governance subjects in rural society and important forces in the modernization of rural governance.They are irreplaceable forces for make up the addressing of the countryside, reshaping urban-rural relationships, and promoting rural revitalization, which is an important topic in rural geography. Therefore, in the context of a rural revitalization strategy, it is of great practical significance to thoroughly study the mechanism of rural elites' participation in rural revitalization. Based on the discussion of rural elites' concept, types, and evolution, this study constructs a model of the mechanism of rural elites' participation in rural revitalization based on the logic of related research and Xuefeng He's model of "farmers' twolevel identity and action". This study systematically reviews the role of rural elites in integrating, managing, coordinating, and coordinating resources in rural society under the joint impetus of two-tier identity, and promoting rural industrial revitalization, talent revitalization, cultural revitalization, ecological revitalization, and organizational revitalization through the mechanisms of industrial cultivation, social mobilization, cultural reconstruction, philosophy reshaping, and rural good governance. It is found that rural elites not only play the role of human capital in talent revitalization and organizational revitalization but also the role of "think tanks" in industrial revitalization, cultural revitalization, and ecological revitalization.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    DUAN Kai-feng, SHI Jian-gang, WU Guang-dong, XU Ke
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(3): 1-10,68. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.03.001
    The urban-rural integration system is considered as the theoretical basis for a new understanding of modern urban-rural relationship. In order to deeply understand the complex process mechanism and organizational rules of urban-rural integration development, this paper theoretically explains the scientific connotation of urban-rural integration system and analyzes its structural characteristics and operation mechanism, from the perspective of system theory. First of all, based on the theory of man-land relationship areal system and the basic idea of urban-rural integration system design, the scientific connotation of urban-rural integration system is theoretically explained. Secondly, under the overall framework of sustainability science, the structure of urban-rural integration system is analyzed. Finally, the operation mechanism model of urbanrural integration system is constructed based on the main line of "elements → structure → function", and the dynamic mechanism and transmission mechanism of urban-rural integration system are analyzed. The research results are conductive to expanding the existing urban-rural areal system theory, and have certain theoretical reference value for the development of urban-rural integration theory and the orderly advancement of urban-rural integration in the new era.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    XU Yan, LU Lin
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(3): 11-20. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.03.002
    Abstract (212) PDF (1440) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Tourism destination evolution (TDE) is a classic topic in tourism geography. Taking the database of Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI, https://www.cnki.net/) and Web of Science (WoS, http://apps.webofknowledge.com) as data sources, this paper summarizes the basic situation of TDE research at home and abroad in the past 20 years. The results are as follows: 1) The number of published articles on TDE research shows a development process of slow growth (before 2008) -fluctuating growth (from 2009 to 2016) -rapid growth (from 2017 to now). 2) A small academic team in TDE research, which is centered on individual leading scholars and has geographical relations, has initially taken shape. At the international level, Professor Giorgio Anfuso is a leading figure who is committed to studying the evolution and development of coastal tourist destinations from the perspective of physical geography. 3) The existence of theoretical activity is to provide practitioners with thinking logic. Taking the juxtaposition and comparison of theoretical perspectives as the main line of action, this paper finds that there are two completely different research turns in TDE research. From the perspective of research, the research paradigm of taking the relationship between supply and demand of tourism as a clue and adopting single-line logic narration is increasingly questioned, and the dynamic and complex characteristics of the evolution of tourist destinations have attracted more and more researchers' attention. From the research content, the focus in TDE research is gradually shifting from focusing on explaining the origin and development process of tourism destinations, providing countermeasures, explanations and descriptive arguments, to focusing on analyzing the driving mechanism and complex social, economic and cultural effects behind the evolution of tourism destinations.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    WU Wen-zhi, QIAO Meng
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(3): 21-28,191. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.03.003
    During the past 20 years of development experienced by rural tourism, there have been more and more external operators starting to engage in this sector. Playing an important role in the development of rural tourism in China, external operators exert a profound influence on rural economic and social development. Despite plenty of studies on rural tourism, there are still few studies on external operators. The following conclusions are drawn based on a study of 135 relevant literature sourced from authoritative databases. Through an in-depth explanation as to the motivation of external operators, the existing research has reached a certain consensus on the choice of business mode. Besides, the relevant studies have elaborated on the tendency shown by external operators in social communication, social responsibility and social governance, with in-depth studies conducted to explore their impact on rural industry and economic development, population structure and social relations, as well as cultural change. However, there is still little research on the economic and social attributes of external operators under the context of Chinese practicalities. There are not only few studies exploring the correlation between motivation, operation style and behavioral tendency of external operators, but also a lack of research on the influence of their transition and subdivision subject. It is further proposed in this study that the external operators have developed a unique social behavior tendency and influence in the process of conducting rural tourism business, which constitutes the logic of research on the rural tourism external operators with Chinese characteristics. Therefore, it is necessary to focus future effort on the cross-cutting research of growth variables and the in-depth impact of external operators. Moreover, follow-up research should be conducted to reveal the relationship between external operators and the high-quality development of rural tourism. And attention shall also be paid to the profound influence of external operators on rural social development. With theoretical research as guidance, a win-win cooperation can be achieved for both external operators and rural tourism.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    ZHONG Yun, QIN Yan-ran
    Abstract (183) PDF (2038) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Industrial co-agglomeration refers to the phenomenon that two sectors, or even more sectors, highly concentrated in a certain area. The synergetic association among sectors has facilitated the industrial co-agglomeration. It is a new form which can reflect the correlation among the industries through the spatial relation of the industries, especially in the advanced stage of industrial development. According to the theories, the industrial co-agglomeration may occur in the place where a single industry agglomerates. And the empirical studies also show that, due to a variety of reasons such as shared market and labor force, knowledge spillover, and dependence on cities, co-agglomeration of producer services and manufacturing has occurred in big cities. From the perspective of high-quality development, the research of industrial coagglomeration provides a new perspective for promoting industrial development. This paper is aimed to systematically review the evolution of industrial co-agglomeration. Firstly, we tried to distinguish the concept between industrial co-agglomeration and industrial agglomeration, and analyze the measurements of industrial co-agglomeration. Secondly, we examined the mechanism about how industrial co-agglomeration was formed. Thirdly, we evaluated the industrial co-agglomeration from the perspective of economic effect and social ecological effect, including the economic growth, industrial upgrading, technological innovation, human capital and environmental pollution. Finally, we proposed the future potential research of industrial coagglomeration under the requirements of high-quality development.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    HUANG Xing, LIU Zhen, TAN Yi-ming
    Abstract (148) PDF (1513) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Gentrification is a process of socio-spatial reconstruction in which the higher income class replaces the lower income class and improves the built environment of the community. It not only appears in the change of domestic living space, but also is caused by transnational capital and immigration in other countries or regions. It leads to a new gentrification phenomenon in the era of globalization. Therefore, the concept of transnational gentrification is introduced in this study to explain how transnational immigrants inject their own preferences of consumption behavior and pursuit of material space into the process of community transformation, and replace local residents as the main users of community space. Aiming at the research literature on transnational gentrification in the west, starting with the concept of transnational gentrification, this paper systematically arranges and reviews the development background, phenomenon characteristics, formation mechanism, impact consequences and development trend of transnational gentrification, and points out that how to retain transnational gentrifiers is the key in the development trend of transnational gentrification. The effect of sustainable construction of transnational communities on economic growth cannot be ignored. Yet the negative impact on vulnerable groups is also clear. On the basis of looking forward to the research methods, empirical cases and aftereffect prediction of western transnational gentrification, this paper believes that Chinese transnational gentrification research should pay more attention to the concept derivation, development degree, role of government and policy response in the Chinese context, so as to build a transnational gentrification research framework with Chinese context and characteristics.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    MA Li, LONG Hua-lou, Liu Bing-sheng
    At the end of 2020, China has completed the mission of poverty alleviation in the new era as scheduled. China's poverty alleviation has contributed its wisdom to global poverty reduction and created a miracle of poverty reduction for mankind. However, due to the existence of natural risks, social risks and market risks, relative poverty always exists, and anti-poverty will inevitably continue to become an important work in the "post-poverty alleviation era". As a result, the stability of poverty alleviation in some poverty-eliminated regions is weak, the sustainability of local development is not strong, and there is a great risk of returning to poverty. Therefore, based on the research results of multiple disciplines, this paper systematically summarizes the research progress of "endogenous and exogenous" collaborative research on sustainable development in poverty-eliminated regions from both theoretical and practical aspects. The result showed that the existing research has made great progress in the concept of rural poverty, measurement methods, influencing factors, endogenous motivation and external assistance, anti-poverty strategies and optimal regulation, etc, and the research content is constantly enriched and shows a trend of being demand-oriented.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    ZHANG Da-zhao, ZHAO Zhen-bin, GAO Yang
    Abstract (171) PDF (1572) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Big data has become a new data source and analysis method for understanding tourism phenomena, bringing new opportunities to tourism research. The existing tourism big data research mainly focuses on providing basic data support for tourism management innovation, exploring tourist behavior patterns,and tourism experiences and so on. These research on big data in tourism, however, sees big data only as a collection of objective, value-neutral data, which separates data from complex social life and neglects the social situation, the psychology of consumption, and the process of cultural production generated. This article attempts to reflect on the application of the methods and interpretation of research findings in the study of big data in tourism, introducing the social representation perspective of big data, seeing big data as outcome of people's representational practice, sorting out new tourist phenomena and theoretical expansion from a social representation perspective, and highlight the tourism development opportunities and directions brought by big data. The article highlights that information and communication technologies and big data have transformed the whole tourism phenomenon, and tourism big data research should focus on social representation of the interaction between the subject and the place, and between the subjects, in order to reveal the meaning, emotion, identity, and value of data. On the one hand, the article discusses the relationship between tourists' social representation and place. On the other hand, it examines the relationship between subjects, such as the impact of social representation of tourists on tourism behavior and tourism experience. In addition, the rapid development and dynamic characteristics of technology mean that most tourism theories have not considered the new tourism culture phenomenon under the background of big data, and the theoretical explanatory power and applicability need to be re-examined under the new technology conditions.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    XIAO Jie, QIAO Jia-jun, ZHU Qian-kun
    Abstract (174) PDF (1300) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Specialized villages win by specialization and are known for their specialties. They are an important engine for solving the problems of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and play an important role in promoting the realization of rural revitalization. Through combing through the research results of specialized villages in China from 2013 to 2022, we found that:The research contents are diversified, mainly including the concept of specialized villages, the motivation of their emergence, the relationship with geographic environment, the law of evolution, professional development, transformation and upgrading, and their role in rural revitalization. The research perspectives integrate economics, sociology, geography and other disciplines and their theories, showing the integration of multiple disciplines and the combination of multiple theories. The research methods are diverse and extensive, mainly quantitative analysis, and most of them adopt geographic analysis and mathematical modeling methods. The research methods are diverse and extensive, mainly quantitative analysis, and most of the studies adopt geological analysis and mathematical modeling methods. There is still a need for strengthening in the following areas:Study the resilience level and adaptability of specialized villages, formulate countermeasures to improve the integrity, synergy and stable development of the internal system of specialized villages, and help understand the high-quality development of specialized villages and specialized villages, the relationship between rural revitalization.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    ZHAO Xin-zheng, ZHANG De-kang, GAO Wei, LI Lei, LI Tong-sheng, DONG Xin, ZHU Jing
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(2): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.02.001
    Abstract (245) PDF (1461) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Through the research on the "environment behavior health" model and healthy communities at home and abroad, it is found that the research scale of "environment behavior health" has been continuously refined, and has developed from the early regional scale to the current residential area and community level. As one of the current research hotspots, healthy community has the construction concept of security, inclusiveness and sustainability. In practice, the construction of healthy community has expanded from the initial hard environment construction to the soft environment construction; the governance object of healthy community has changed from the macro strategy oriented to all community residents to the specific measures focusing on the interests of all and vulnerable groups. At the level of evaluation and influencing factors, the game among government, developers, residents and property constitutes the key factor affecting the construction of healthy communities; the evaluation indicators of healthy communities are expanding along the Maslow demand level, but the high-level evaluation indicators are facing the dual challenges of less ideal indicators and low availability. Finally, this paper points out that the current healthy community research has some shortcomings.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    YU Si-qi
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(2): 10-18,87. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.02.002
    Abstract (175) PDF (1722) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    In the 21st century, urban planning concepts such as "green city", "park city" and "green infrastructure" are becoming more and more popular, and urban development/renewal based on green space has emerged in large cities around the world. While improving the environmental quality, the "green turn" will trigger the gentrification in specific areas. A systematic review of western studies on environmental gentrification in the past 20 years found that: Firstly, the phenomenon of environmental gentrification originated from the evolution of the uneven allocation of environmental amenities in the post-industrial era from "NIMBY" facilities to "green space". Besides, the coupling relationship between green practice and socio-spatial upgrading is its core; Secondly, at this stage, more econometric methods, such as geographically weighted regression, double/triple difference method, and canonical correlation analysis, have been introduced to capture the socio-spatial changes in urban scale; Thirdly, the combination of political ecology theory and classic "production-consumption" analysis in gentrification, research perspectives such as environmental "rent gap", middle-class group identity and green preference, and "green growth alliance" put formation mechanisms into the framework of new interpretations. Finally, a multi-scale impact assessment of social, economic, and ecological effects of environmental gentrification and planning response based on community empowerment, urban planning and design, and policy regulation could provide empirical support and optimization suggestions for green improvement practices in China.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    LIU Xuan-yu, LIU Yun-gang
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(2): 19-27. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.02.003
    Abstract (176) PDF (1188) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Electoral geography is one of the important branches of political geography. It mainly discusses the geographical factors affecting elections and the geographical characteristics of election activities. Although electoral geography has developed around the axiom that place matters, it has not been universally agreed upon by geographers. In recent years, metrological electoral geography has been challenged and revised by the paradigm shift of spatial analysis, and the ontology and epistemology of "place" have undergone new changes. Based on this, this paper reviews the relevant literature on the understanding of "place and politics" in electoral geography from the perspective of social constructivism, summarizes the main research topics and the reasons for the decline of local research, and discusses the response of current research topics to social constructivism theory and the possibility of knowledge spillover. The results show that: 1) The research of social constructivism of electoral geography on place covers three aspects: Contextualized place, structured place and scaled place, which indicates that the construction of place is the concrete social geographical basis for shaping political views and political interaction; 2) The decline of local studies is not only influenced by the negative spillover effect of "community decline", but also related to the nationalization of electoral system and the hegemony of western social science and culture; 3) The issues of "power and space", emotion and feminism, constituent of voters and coalition of partisans, territorial politics and context effect in current elections indicate that local and regional political competition and advantage pattern still exist, and electoral politics is still a historical process based on local structure.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    MAI Xin, TAO Wei, LIU Wang-bao
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(2): 28-34. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.02.004
    Abstract (225) PDF (2083) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Against the background of rapid urbanization in contemporary China, urban and rural restructuring has generated significant impacts—sometimes manifested as shocks and disturbances—on the rural areas. The line of research on rural resilience has revealed a particular focus on how the rural systems respond to both external and internal shocks and how those responses reshape the future of the rural systems. Given this, this paper endeavors to tease out relevant research—incorporating both the Chinese and English literature on resilience in general and rural resilience in specific—from three aspects, namely, the resilience to what, the resilience of whom, and the measurement of resilience. Through a comprehensive review of resilience literature, this paper aims to advance resilience research with a clarification of the relevant concepts and a deepened understanding of the intellectual pathway of resilience research in literature. The findings of this paper are summarized as follows. First, the study of rural resilience should focus on both sudden and external shocks which may have considerable impacts on the rural systems. Second, the subject of rural resilience has multi-scale correlation effects. At the micro-scale, the resistance, self-organization, and self-adaptation capabilities of individual farmers and rural households can better reflect the very meaning of resilience, which is suggested as adaptive transformation in international literature. Third, in the context of urban-rural integration, future research should continuously focus on the spatiotemporal evolutionary process of rural resilience and unfold the mechanism underlying that process.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    ZHANG Ruo-xing
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(2): 35-43. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.02.005
    Abstract (180) PDF (2691) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    The study of cultural revitalization has been a key area of attention in recent years in the study of rural revitalization theory and practice. This paper combines quantitative and qualitative research methods from the connotation of the concept of rural culture, the significance of rural cultural revitalization, the logic of rural cultural governance, the dilemma of rural cultural transformation, the mechanism of rural cultural reproduction and the path of rural cultural spatial reconstruction, etc. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods is used to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the research lineage and trends of rural cultural spatial reconstruction. In the quantitative research part, CiteSpace software is used to visualize and analyze the literature data, which can effectively reflect the core nodes and development trends of the research field, and also provide data support for analyzing and extracting the trends and research hotspots of rural cultural spatial reconstruction research development through hotspot word analysis. Using the China Knowledge Network as the basic database, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of the research on the spatial transformation and reconstruction of rural culture from 2000 to 2022. The study is intended to provide an important reference for expanding the scope of research in this field. It is found that the study of cultural reproduction mechanisms and the empirical study of cultural spatial reconstruction based on the modernization and transformation of rural culture has become a theoretical and practical hot issue that needs to be explored urgently, and the main line of research and the core research framework based on the above-mentioned content are proposed. In view of the shortcomings of the existing studies, it is proposed that the interdisciplinary approach should be used in the empirical and applied research to highlight the subjective position of human beings in the dynamic process of the continuation and creation of rural culture.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    HE Can-fei, SHENG Han-tian
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(1): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.01.001
    Abstract (345) PDF (2599) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Since the global financial crisis, regional economic resilience has become a research hot-spot. The meaning of "resilience" in mechanics is the ability of an object to return to its initial state after being stressed. In subsequent studies, resilience is gradually transformed into a metaphor for research in the fields of ecology, economics and economic geography. Regional economic resilience has spatial scale characteristics, and its research object is the ability of multi-scale spatial economic systems responding to external shocks. Existing literature constructs the theoretical framework of regional economic resilience from the perspective of equilibrium theory and evolution theory. Regional resilience research integrates temporal and spatial characteristics. Existing research has also begun to excavate the micro-foundation of regional economic resilience from the perspective of network resilience in order to achieve macro-micro-scale unification. First, network resilience represents the ability of factors within a region to connect with each other, and important nodes play a global role in connection with each other. Second, the structure of the complex network itself has a significant impact on regional economic resilience. In terms of outlook, on the one hand, future research should pay more attention to the heterogeneity of crises and shocks, and systematically reveal the important role of actors in the formation and maintenance of regional economic resilience. Finally, in China, the multi-agent interaction process with the government as the main participant may systematically improve the resilience of the regional economy and enhance the stability of the Chinese economy in an uncertain environment.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    LI Yao-qi, DENG Qiao-qiao
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(1): 11-19. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.01.002
    Abstract (292) PDF (1472) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    Due to the in-group favoritism and out-group devaluation of the social identity theory, the dominant group could improve their social status by discriminating against disadvantaged groups. Consequently, the phenomenon of stigmatization is inevitably. In recent years, the increasingly negative events about tourism industry have a severe negative impacts on the whole industry. Nowadays, tourism industry is facing a serious trust crisis and even stigmatized by the rest of society. The stigma of tourism occupation imposed by society leads the whole industry to less attractive due to the low self-esteem and lack of professional pride caused by the occupational stigma. Therefore, the coping strategies of avoiding the aggravation of tourism stigmatization and industry reputation repairing have become urgent issues to be solved in tourism industry, that is of great significance to the further development of tourism of China. However, there are almost no relevant studies in the academic field, and little attention has been paid to the stigma study in tourism occupation. In order to make up for the research gap, this paper will make a systematic literature review on the study progress of tourism stigma. According to a systematic literature review, the research finds that the way of destigmatization of tourism needs to be analyzed from the perspectives of geography, sociology, management, psychology, and other disciplines, due to both the tourism activities and stigmatization process are complex phenomenon related to many stakeholders. The current tourism stigma research can be divided into three types: Tourism spatial stigma based on man-land relationships, tourist stigma based on group relationships, and tourism occupational stigma based on interpersonal relationships. Among them, the tourism spatial stigma and tourist stigma have serious negative impacts on tourism behavior and will hamper the development of the destination. This study appeal that tourism scholars should strengthen the research on the formation process and comprehensive treatment of tourism stigma. The author hopes that this paper can arouse scholars' attention to the tourism stigma, and provide theoretical guidance for the practice of tourism industry.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    XU Die, MA Li
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(1): 20-27,35. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.01.003
    Abstract (163) PDF (1211) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    The deepening of conflicts between development and environment has triggered scholars to rethink the relationship between economy and environment. In order to understand the development process of the research topic, direction and perspective of environm economic geography in past five decades, this paper took the quantitative and qualitative literature review and discovered the key topics in different periods through CiteSpace tools. It is found that with the increase of environmental problems caused by human activities, as well as the complexity and diversification of the causes, influencing factors and solutions of the problems, the researches related to environmental economic geography have been incorporating new contents and new thoughts, and the research themes have been gradually diversifying. From the end of the 20th century to 2020, a total of 31 keyword mutations occurred in the work that can be included in the research on industryenvironment relations, which started with environmental issues and phenomena such as pollution, environment and sustainable development at first, and gradually focused on economics, economic growth and the quality of development, as well as regulatory policy, environmental regulation and so on. In China, however, there are relatively few studies on the interaction among different scales, different actors, and the dynamic evolution of economy-environmental relationship.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    ZHANG Yuan-gang, JI Lei-lei, GUO Ying-zhi, HE Yang-mei
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(1): 28-35. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.01.004
    Rural tourism is an important breakthrough to realize the revitalization of rural areas in the new era. The new background of double cycle new economic pattern puts forward new challenges for China's rural tourism. Based on the new background of the economic pattern with internal circulation as the main body and double circulation driving, this paper analyzes the organic relationship between it and the development of rural tourism in China; Based on the new market pattern, new resource pattern and new development demand brought by the double cycle, this article expounds the necessity of the adaptation of rural tourism, combs the logical relationship between rural tourism and rural revitalization under the new mode of internal circulation, and explains the adaptation connotation of domestic economic cycle and rural tourism; Based on the direction of dual cycle rural tourism adaptation in the future, this paper puts forward the research framework of rural tourism adaptation in the context of dual cycle, and focuses on four levels of research content, points out the potential theoretical innovations, including the theoretical basis analysis of dual cycle driven rural tourism adaptation, the exploration of the elements and combination path of dual cycle driven rural tourism adaptation.
  • THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    LI Zi-feng, XUE De-sheng
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(6): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.06.001
    Abstract (197) PDF (1307) HTML   Knowledge map   Save
    International investment is an important research topic in the context of globalization, and geography is one of the main subjects of related studies. As China is developing as export-oriented economy by reform and opening-up policies, the study of international investment has practical significance. This article is comprehensively adopted scientific measurement and literature research methods. Significant research progresses are made in the studies on investment's location choice, temporal and spatial evolution patterns, driving forces, and influences and effects. In recent years, the trend internationalization perspective is obviously shown. The studies on multinational investment's impact on and effects in global division of labor and urban globalization development have dropped highly of attention. Chinese enterprises' foreign investment has been a hot academic in the past 10 years. Quantitative analysis is the main research method. Researches are mainly based on empirical analysis, developing from the reference and application of a single theory to the integration of multiple theories. The research perspectives, content and methods tend to be more and more diversified and integrated. More expansion and critical thinking about current conceptual frameworks are needed in future research. To explain the dynamic development of international investment, new perspectives and new theories are called for. Highlights of relevance of different research directions within the discipline of geography, characteristics of geography are also significant.