Geographical Research, Volume. 39, Issue 9, 1949(2020)
In the era of globalization, key production factors such as population, industry, energy, and trade are flowing rapidly across regions. The relationship between human and environment has changed from a static to a dynamic status, from isolation to networking, and the geographical scale has been fully enlarged, indicating the transformation of human-land relationship from regional to global scale. As the frontiers of China’s opening up, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has undergone profound changes in its man-land relationship in the past 40 years of reform and openning-up. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to re-recognize, study and adjust the global and local modes of the man-land relationship in the study area, so as to provide information on how the bay area can rationally allocate the core elements on global and regional scales and develop into a world-class bay area. This paper reviews the global transformation of man-land relationship in the new era, and prospects the study of man-land relationship in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It aims to: (1) examine the general man-land relationship patterns and laws of the world-class bay area from regional to global in theory; (2) analyze the global allocation process and changing influencing factors of man-land relationship in the Greater Bay Area since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s; (3) reveal the local response and regional system mechanism within the bay area based on the global model; (4) explore the path of reconstruction of the “innovation-industry-environment” key system; (5) propose the optimization and regulation pathways of the man-land relationship in the region in the new era.
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Yi LIU, Yu YANG, Lei KANG, Yun WANG.
Received: Aug. 25, 2020
Accepted: --
Published Online: Apr. 23, 2021
The Author Email: LIU Yi (liuy@igsnrr.ac.cn)