本文主要回顾了我国功能区划的发展历程,指出已有区划在解决新问题时存在的不足。提出进行以可持续发展为目标的区域空间功能分区,其目标是充分协调利用和保护区域空间多功能性即其社会功能、经济功能、生态环境功能等。区域空间功能分区分为三个步骤:针对不同地区关键领域的功能识别与确定、区域空间功能发展目标导向确定和区域空间发展工具确定。区域空间具有多项功能,区域多种功能的识别和定量以及主体功能的选择可采用区域空间功能函数群方法,区域空间功能分区的整个流程可用决策树方法将区域空间功能分区结果表达在空间上形成一系列主题功能区图谱。

Human activities drive the land use changes in spatio-temporal dimensions which cause changes of land functions in succession. Land use sectors in China are highly dynamic and of particular importance for the world's sustainable development. Based on a review of the zoning works completed in China, this paper set up an approach for identifying the multifunctionalities of a specific spatial area and further for zoning of projected area in line on the multifunctionalities of a specific spatial area. The objective of spatial function zoning is determined to harmoniously and fully use and protect the multifunctionalities of a specific spatial area including social functions, economic functions and ecological and environmental functions in a region. The approach consists of three steps: (1) assessing and identifying the multifunctionalities linked to a key field of sustainable regional development; (2) identifying the spatial development guidance that determines which actions may best or most appropriately lead to reasonable utilization of spatial multifunctionalities; and (3) establishing schemes and tools including the available instruments and planed instruments in the area to implement measures which contribute to the sustainable utilization of regionally spatial multifunctionalities. This paper indicates that the spatial function method is used to identify, choose and access quantitatively the main spatial functions. At the same time, the information flows and their final results are expressed as a series of maps of spatial function zoning by using method defined as a decision-making tree.