中文摘要：

在全球化发展的大趋势下,受整个地理学界＂文化转向＂的影响,同时也为了应对日益严重的人口、资源与环境之间的矛盾,自然地理学的研究方法、研究重点以及各种议题都发生了显著的变化,各种研究使自然地理学更趋于文化性。本文以＂文化转向＂作为自然地理学创新的1个视角,从自然地理学的研究对象、核心内容等方面阐述了文化自然地理学产生的背景;并列举了自然地理学响应＂文化转向＂的3条研究线索;在此基础上,探索性地提出了从自然地理学角度开展＂人居环境＂和＂环境意象＂2个议题的研究;最后,强调自然地理学在进一步进行＂文化转向＂和创新的同时,应该保持住自身的性质、目标和方法。

英文摘要：

With the global development,physical geography affected by ＂cultural turning＂ in the whole geography field has changed a lot in its research method,research focuses and main issues in order to cope with the more and more serious conflicts among population,resources and environment.And many researches seemed to be within physical geography with more cultural features.This paper,taking ＂cultural turning＂ as a perspective of the innovation of physical geography,explains the background of cultural physical geography from the aspects of research objects and contents in physical geography.Then the paper describes three research lines of cultural physical geography which are the holistic studying perspective,the perception and imagination of environment and the studies on culture factors,based on which this paper explores that researches on human settlements,environmental image,environmental ethics as well as landscape restoration and environment design should be carried out by physical geography as its cultural issues.Finally,the paper emphasizes that physical geography will have further innovation under the affection of cultural turning,but meanwhile it is also very important and necessary to maintain its original disciplinary nature,target and methods.