摘要
罗纳德·约翰斯顿是一位享誉世界的人文地理学家和人文地理学史家.在硕果累累的一生中,他对人文地理学科作出了特别的贡献,表现于城市地理学、政治地理学、政治学等学科领域的理论和经验研究,地理学思想史和计量方法方面的开创性研究,出版地理学经典《地理学与地理学家》《选举地理》《人文地理学辞典》等重要著作、教材40余部.此外,约翰斯顿注重培育健康的学术文化,发表了大量书评,长期担任著名学科期刊编辑.
Abstract
Ron Johnston is a world-renowned human geographer and historian of geographic thought.In his fruitful life,he made unparalleled contribution to the discipline of human geography.His contribution is not only reflected in his empirical research in urban geography,political geography,and political science with many academic journal papers,but also in his pioneering research on the history of geographical thought and quantitative research methods,and classic works such as Geography and Geographers.He published more than 40 academic monographs,including Philosophy and Human Geography,On Human Geography,and Putting Votes into Their Place:Geography and Elections in Great Britain,edited or coedited more than 40 academic monographs,including A Dictionary of Human Geography,The Future of Geography,and A Century of British Geography.As a university faculty,teaching is one of the three academic works.Johnston acted as course instructor for undergraduate courses such as Urban Geography,Urbanization,Internal Structure of the City,Philosophy and Methodology of Human Geography,Political Geography,State and Economic Restructuring,Contemporary Economic and Political Issues,Geography of Election,Research Methods,Multivariate Statistical Analysis,The State and the Environment,An Introduction to Geography,and for graduate courses,including Urban Geography,Urban Internal Structure,and Multivariate Statistics/Computing.As an advisor,Johnston supervised 47 graduate students.He wrote several important textbooks,including Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Geography:A Primer on the General Linear Model and Geography of Elections.He also set us a good example in terms of academic service.He coedited both Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A:Economy and Space for 25 years(1979-2004),and served on countless editorial boards.He also often served as an external reviewer,participating in the evaluation of dissertations,research fund proposals,professional training programs,book manuscripts,RAE(research assessment exercise),REF(research excellence framework),professional title promotion,and so on.He published many book reviews to build healthy academic community culture.Ron Johnston's diligence,persistence,kindness,and warm and academic service spirit will always inspire us to move forward.We,as Chinese counterparts,can learn a lot from Ron Johnston as a professor and a member of the academic community.
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