Reconsidering the concept of region in

本文旨在了解和介绍近十年来西方国家人文地理学界关于区域和空间概念的讨论。然后，由于与前人研究的联系，主要考察了德语区地理学家的研究状况。笔者于2000年8月赴德国考察，拜访了德国代表性地理学家H. H. Blotevogel，P. Meusburger，U. Wardenga和其他人讨论了我的问题。我也收集了很多研究资料。我在2001年6月3日在广岛大学举行的地理科学协会上报告了题为《当代社会与人文地理学中的区域和空间概念》的研究成果。根据我的研究，从那时起，我发表或现在打印四篇文章，如本文所示。此外，我写了一篇题为“重新考虑人文地理学中的空间概念-特别是德语国家”的“地理科学”。在研究结果的报告中，我添加了Werlen（1995/99）的删节翻译，因为它似乎是由B的阻碍书。Werlen对研究当代德语国家地理学的研究趋势具有重要意义。今后，我将进一步研究人文地理学在英语国家的研究动态，撰写一本书。

The aim of this study is to understand and introduce the discussions on the concepts of region and space which became active during the last decade in the human geography of Western countries. Then I mainly studied the researching situations of German-speaking geographers owing to the connection of my previous studies. Based on my research travel for Germany in August, 2000 I visited German representative geographers such as H. H. Blotevogel, P. Meusburger, U. Wardenga and others and discussed my questions. I gathered a lot of research materials, too. I reported my research results titled 'the contemporary society and the concepts of region and space in human geography' at the Association of Geographical Sciences held on 3th, June, 2001 at Hiroshima University. Based on my studies added since then I published or am now printing four articles as shown on this paper. In addition I wrote a paper titled 'Reconsidering the space concept in human geography - with special reference to German speaking countries' to the 'Geographical Sciences'. In the report of research results I added to an abridged translation of Werlen (1995/99), because it seems that the Habilitation book by B. Werlen is very important for studying the research trends of contemporary geography in German-speaking countries. In future I will write a book after my further research on the research trends of human geography in English-speaking countries.