西方经济地理学区域研究的新视角——论"新区域主义"的兴起  

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN WESTERN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF'THE NEW REGIONALISM'

作　　者：苗长虹[1] 樊杰[2] 张文忠[2] 

机构地区：[1]河南大学环境与规划学院,中国河南开封475001 [2]中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所,中国北京100101

出　　处：《经济地理》2002年第6期644-650,共7页Economic Geography

基　　金：中国科学院知识创新工程项目(kzcx2-307);国家自然科学基金项目(40071029)资助。

摘　　要：20世纪80年代以来,区域研究在西方经济地理学界迅速复兴,产生了被称为"新区域主义"的一系列理论和政策导向。文章介绍了"新区域主义"出现的背景,论述其特点及理论渊源,分析了"新区域主义"的发展脉络与新动向和政策导向,最后评述了"新区域主义"的理论与实践意义,讨论了其存在的问题。In the early 1980s, the region, long considered an interesting topic to geographers, was rediscovered by mainstream western social science and treated as a fundamental units of economic and social life in contemporary capitalism. Since that, the studies on regional economic development were soon resurging, therefore, 'the new regionalism' or 'the institutionalist perspective' came into being and became the mainstream thoughts in western economic geography. This paper briefly introduces the historical contexts of technological and organizational changes, then investigates the characteristics and origins in its theories, which come mainly from a new set of theoretical tools involving economic sociology, evolutionary economics and institutional economics. Following, the three main strands, which consist of 'the flexible specialization school', 'the California school' and 'the technological innovation school', and the four main policy orientations such as 'building clusters and local economies of association', 'improving the capacities of learning and adaptation', 'broadening the local institutional base' and ' Mobilizing the social economy', of the 'new regionalism' are discussed. Finally, the paper gives a critical assessment to the significant theoretical improvements and the inadequate problems.

关 键 词：经济地理学 区域发展 新区域主义 制度主义 

分 类 号：F119.9[经济管理—国际贸易]