《恋地情结》作为段义孚的成名作，主要讲述人与周围环境的关系。随着城市的建设和发展，人们感受到了环境的巨大变化。但是，这些关注，更多是从环保和生态的角度，而对于人在情感上与环境的关联，很少触及。段义孚的这本书恰恰就是从这一点上来论述。环境不仅作为人们的资源攫取地和需要加以适应的物理场所，环境也是人在实践中建构的人文场所，人将他的价值、情感置于其中，人文丰富了大地景观的生态状况，地方景观丰富了人的情感体验。本书用一些明确的概念来理解和解释人与地方的这种情感关联。

What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual. Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and environment and topophilia and environment as distinct in order to show how they mutually contribute to the formation of values. Topophilia examines the search for environment in the city, suburb, countryside, and wilderness from a dialectical perspective, distinguishes different types of environmental experience, and describes their character.

《文化地理学释义：大学讲课录》要讨论的是文化地理学，首先注意一下“文化地理”与“文化地理学”的区别。后者因为多了一个“学”字，就上升到了学术理论体系的层面，是关于一门学问的理论方法的。如果没有“学”字，则是关于大地上的文化现象象、文化事物的具体的地理分布。