试论区域科学学科体系

根据系统论的观点，本文构建了一种区域科学的学科体系框架，将区域科学的研究内容分为对要素的研究、对子系统的研究、对分系统的研究、对系统整体的研究、对系统间联系的研究和对系统调控的研究六个方面；将区域科学的学科属性归为应用地理学，并对区域科学与相关学科的关系进行了初步的讨论。本文的研究对建立和完善区域科学理论体系有一定的借鉴作用。

ON THE DISCIPLINE STRUCTURE OF REGIONAL SCIENCE

Since the foundation of regional science in 1954, much progress have been made in this field. But the knowledge structure, content, and scope of regional science have not been clearly defined. The common interests of regional science, eoonomic geography, and regional economics frustrate many new researcher. In this paper, the concept of region as a system is analyzed firstly. The elements of regional system was divided into two sets. One is the subject elements which contain individual person, enterprise, and government organization. The other is the environment elements which contain natural environment and human envirmlenr. Then, based on general system theory, the discipline structure of regional science was put forward. The whole content of regional science is divided into six parts,which are the studys on regional elements, regional subsystems, regional special systems, the whole region, the relationships between different regions and the control of regions. Each of this six parts could be separated again to specific resreach problems. Every aspect of regional science can be included in this structure. It is a hierarchic system of regional study field. In this paper, the authors conclude that regional science is a kind of applied geography, the knowledge of physic geography and human geography are the bases for regional science to solve regional problems. At last, the differences between regional geography, regional economics, economic geography, and regional science arediscussed.