RESEARCH PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF DOMESTIC ACADEMIC CIRCLES ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GEOGRAPHY
Under the background that area studies is listed as a first-level discipline,Small Island Developing States(SIDS)has become a new opportunity for the development and growth of world geography research field in China.The research on Small Island Developing States in domestic academic circles has a strong in-terdisciplinary nature,which has been involved in multiple subject areas,such as international relations,his-tory,anthropology,sociology,economics,law and literature.From the perspective of geography,the existing research results mainly includes the following four topics:Geopolitics,economic interaction and industrial development,regional response to climate change,cultural geography and social construction.In terms of methods in Small Island Developing States research field,the qualitative research methods are mainly ap-plied to existing research results,while the quantitative methods are single and limited,its advantages of re-search on Small Island Developing States are not exploited.In addition to this,the advantages of spatial analysis theories and methods in geography research field still need to be further explored and applied.Through literature review and theoretical analysis,the results indicate:In the first place,the Small Island De-veloping States research is an important medium for dialogue between human geography and area studies,secondly the correlation between different scales is the main perspective of Small Island Developing States research,thirdly the colonial history of these countries is the basic clue that runs through Small Island Devel-oping States research.In the end,this paper draws the international experience and methods of Small Island Developing States research field and puts forward four research prospects for Small Island Developing States research in domestic academic circles from the perspective of the geography.
geographyresearch progressdomestic academic circlesSmall Islands Developing States
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