当代地理学面临自然一人文二元化、学科过分分化、失去雄心壮志且健忘等问题,统一地理学受到挑战。从自然地理学先驱们探讨人类活动及其影响着手,对自然地理学的人文化进行回顾,并论述其最新进展;从自然生产视角探讨人文地理学与自然地理学的交叉性。基于两大分支学科的最新发展趋势和解决问题的面向性,提出围绕重大问题,超越自然一人文二元化,加强对话,加强统一地理学,以便加强学科认同并对人类面临的重大问题做出应有的贡献。
Throughout the period from 1970s to the present, geography is in a state of turmoil. We present a short introduction to the issues confronting the disciplines of geography. Recent humanization development of physical geographical studies in the USA and Europe is reviewed mainly based on The Changing Nature of Physical Geography by Derek Gregory. The interactions between human geography and physical geography are discussed from a view of nature production. It is necessary to do studies on unity of geography beyond the dichotomy of physical and human geography. It is a great challenge to do the unity of geography for Chinese geographers based on important issues such as IGBP-HDP, global change, sustainable development as well as the social problems .