Overview
- Utilizes Big Data of articles, projects and characteristics of time series for bibliometrics and NSFC analysis
- Explains evolution of trends and driving factors in the Geographical Sciences in Multi-dimensional perspectives
- Explores new research methods to improve the efficiency of data acquisition
- Shares undocumented research and the basic data and enriches evaluation system of discipline development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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An Overview of Development in the Geographical Sciences
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Trends in the Development of the Four Branches of the Geographical Sciences
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Strategic Research Issues on the Geographical Sciences
Keywords
- Geographical Sciences
- Chinese Geographical Sciences
- geographical education in colleges and universities
- NSFC
- 1986-2015
- Land surface
- global change and terrestrial ecosystems
- terrestrial water cycle and water resources
- land change
- cryosphere
- the Tibetan Plateau
- economic globalization
- sustainable development
- remote sensing modelling and parameter inversion
- uncertainty of spatial information and spatial analysis
- environmental pollution and health
- international rivers
- geomorphology and Quaternary environmental change
- climate change impacts
About this book
In four chapters and an introduction, this book systematically helps readers understand the development of the Geographical Sciences both in China and in the world during the past 30 years.
Through data analysis of methodologies including CiteSpace, TDA, qualitative analysis, questionnaires, data mining and mathematical statistics, the book explains the evolution of research topics and their driving factors in the Geographical Sciences and its four branches, namely Physical Geography, Human Geography, Geographical Information Science and Environmental Geography. It also identifies the role of the Geographical Sciences in the analysis of strategic issues such as global change and terrestrial ecosystems, terrestrial water cycle and water resources, land change, global cryosphere evolution and land surface processes on the Tibetan Plateau, economic globalization and local responses, regional sustainable development, remote sensing modelling and parameter inversion, spatial analysis and simulation, and tempo-spatial processes and modelling of environmental pollutants. It then discusses research development and inadequacy of Chinese Geographical Sciences in the above-mentioned topics, as well as in the fields including Geomorphology and Quaternary environmental change, Ecohydrology, ecosystem services, the urbanization process and mechanism, medical and health geography, international rivers and transboundary environment and resources, detection and attribution of changes in land surface sensitive components, and uncertainty of spatial information and spatial analysis. It shows that the NSFC has driven the development in all these topics and fields. In addition, the book summarises trends of the Geographical Sciences in China and the research level in major countries of the world through an overview of geographical education in colleges and universities, the analysis of publications, citations and author networks of SCI/SSCI and CSCD indexed articles, and the description of Sino-USA, Sino-UK and Sino-German cooperation.
This book serves as an important reference to anyone interested in geographical sciences and related fields.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
LENG, Shuying, division head of geography, department of earth sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), also vice president of the 11th council of the Geographical Society of China.
She received a bachelor’s degree in Geography from Peking University in 1987, and a master’s degree and Ph.D from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990 and 2001, separately. She has published more than 60 research articles. Since 1999 when she engaged in project management in NSFC, Shuying has published 42 articles on the strategic research on the development of Chinese Geographical Sciences and project management as the first author. Up to November, 2015, her articles have been cited more than 980 times by CNKI (China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database)-indexed papers and downloaded more than 16 thousand times. She has proposed “Directions and Key Words of Geography and Related Fieldsof the National Natural Science Foundation of China”, which is now an important guidance for project application and peer review of NSFC geography projects. She has been recruited to the “National one million talents” project in 2013 and awarded the “National Middle-aged and Young Experts having Outstanding Contributions” by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China. In 2014, she was awarded “the Sixth National Excellent Science and Technology Workers”, by China Association for Science and Technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015
Book Subtitle: From the Classics To the Frontiers
Authors: Shuying Leng, Xizhang Gao, Tao Pei, Guoyou Zhang, Liangfu Chen, Xi Chen, Canfei He, Daming He, Xiaoyan Li, Chunye Lin, Hongyan Liu, Weidong Liu, Yihe Lü, Shilong Piao, Qiuhong Tang, Fulu Tao, Lide Tian, Xiaohua Tong, Cunde Xiao, Desheng Xue, Linsheng Yang, Linwang Yuan, Yuanming Zheng, Huiyi Zhu, … Liping Zhu
Series Title: Springer Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1884-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Commercial Press, Ltd. and Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1883-1Published: 12 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9469-9Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1884-8Published: 28 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2194-315X
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LII, 596
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 209 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Jointly published with The Commercial Press,Ltd.,Beijing,2016
Topics: Geography, general, Environment, general, Human Geography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Hydrology/Water Resources