Top Ten Reasons to Study Geography

十大學習地理學的理由

——香港規劃署署長，梁焯輝先生, 2012年11月24日香港地理日

翻譯by 劉逸，香港浸會大學地理系?

譯者博文地址：http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_62a0063b0100fl99.html

1.????? To understand basic physical systems that affect everyday life

理解影響我們日常生活的自然系統

2.???? To learn the location of places and the physical and cultural characteristics of those places in order to function more effectively in our increasingly interdependent world

學習場所的區位特征，包括自然的和文化的，從而更好的發揮這些場所在日益相互依賴的世界系統中的作用

3.???? To understand the geography of past times and how geography has played important roles in the evolution of people, their ideas, places and environments.

理解過往歷史的地理性，以及地理如何影響人類生活、觀念、場所和環境的演化

4.???? To develop a mental map of your community, province and territory, country and the world so that you can understand the ‘where’ of places and events.

培育出一副關于你生活的社區，省份，領土，國家和世界的心理地圖，從而可以理解生活中各類事件和場所的空間位置。

5.???? To explain how the processes of human and physical systems have arranged and sometimes changed the surface of the Earth.

學會解釋人類和自然系統是如何組織并且改變地球外貌的。

6.???? To understand the spatial organization of society and see order in what often appears to be random scattering of people and places.

理解社會的空間組織，從而看清常常隨機出現的人物和場所的空間秩序。

7.???? To recognize spatial distributions at all scales – local to worldwide – in order to understand the complex connectivity of people and places.

理解從本土到全球的空間尺度的分布，從而理解任何場所之間的復雜聯系

8.???? To be able to make sensible judgments about matters involving relationships between the physical environment and society.

對影響自然和社會環境中的各種關系的要素能夠給出一個清晰的認識和判斷

9.???? To appreciate Earth as the homeland of humankind and provide insights for wise management decisions about how the planet’s resources should be used.

學會珍惜地球作為人類家園的重要性，并且為如何管理和使用地球上的資源提供明智的建議

10.?? To understand global interdependence and to become a better global citizen.

理解我們在當前全球體系中的相互依賴性，從而自覺成為一個更好的地球居民。