Yi-Fu Tuan’s Discourse on Formation and Meaning of “Home”: A Study and Reflection from Ecological Perspective

• Main Authors: Tsou, Jui-Yi, 鄒睿怡
• Other Authors: Ke, Immanuel Chi-Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77784501285948917547

碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 生態學系 === 99 === Ecology and geography have a certain degree of kinship in the history of discipline development, especially the interest in the relationship of creature, including man, and its habitats. While Yi-Fu Tuan established his humanistic geography and stressed that geography is the study of the earth as human home, ecology as a science of home(oikos-logos) and geography has become more closely. In our time, ecology rose mostly for solving eco-crisis and environmental problems, but it always focused on various ecological and environmental issues and just tried to repair the damaged ecosystem or nature, ignoring the understanding of the real relationship between man and nature, earth, even the universe. Without such understanding, ecology is unable to solve eco-problems, because these problems are not the matter of ecology or environment at all, but the matter of man. Humanistic geography that established by Yi-Fu Tuan happens to make up for the lack of such understanding. In this study, the first chapter describes the history and relationship of geography and ecology, and tries to describe how these two disciplines shall be the same science of earth as our home form different perspective. Chapter 2 to 5 describes the study of Yi-Fu Tuan‘s humanistic geography on the relationship of man and his environment in all aspects—from nature, environment, and place to placelessness. Chapter 6 discusses the potential for ecology as “a science of home”. This study will point out that only as man take nature, earth, even the universe as home, he will clearly aware the relationship between himself and nature or environment, and thus he will capable to preserve this Home and to solve all the eco-crisis, i.e. the crisis of Home.