《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。

"The Last Launch is a treasure trove of personal visions of wisdom and faith that demonstrate the connections we all have with one another. Tuan's concluding section of 'favorites' alone holds abundant gems from a master scholar who now shares, for the last time in an illustrious career, a lifetime of erudition and teaching. Tuan's work welcomes readers to gather their own religious and ethical/philosophical foundations that can serve as building-blocks for their own faith and direction, especially in relation to the communities and larger world in which they live, learn, and grow. By entering Tuan's stories, young readers, especially, are challenged to become more aware of who they are and who they want to become."
" For more than fifty years and twenty-two books later, Yi-Fu Tuan has been a leading voice in helping us make sense of the world and our place in it. The Last Launch demonstrates that Tuan's insights remain as relevant as ever. Written with the verve and global embrace of personal experience that readers have come to expect from this intellectual maverick, each chapter is a gift and, indeed, like a message in the bottle: pages clipped from the mind of geography's most creative thinker, carefully encased in elegant prose, and then cast away in search of people who are curious and interested in seeing and knowing the world in a detailed, subtle, and wondrous light."

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.

本书讲述了中国这一地理区域内，从史前文明直到今天如此巨大的历史跨度里，地理地貌发生的巨大改变。农田、山林、道路、桥梁、宫殿、苑囿、村落、城市等等，体现了中国人对环境持续不断的精微适应和塑造。从古代人与土地之间和谐、安定并充满美感的关系，到近代以来这种关系被西方殖民入侵、内战所打断，而在现当代工业化的巨大力量对大地景观再次进行强有力的重塑，这其中有令人震撼激动的奇迹，也有令人忧虑不安的眩惑。

逃避过程即是创造文化的过程
所有的生灵中，只有人类在残酷的现实面前选择了退却。
这是一本将地理学与自然、人文、心理、历史、社会结合的书。从上述诸方向阐述人类逃避的行为与心理本质，并推演出这种逃避心理，能推动人类物质文化和精神文化的创造与进步，所以逃避过程，也是文化创造的过程。
人文主义地理学是一门很新的学门，兴起于二十世纪七○年代后期，当时的学术背景是，欧美学术界正如火如荼地开展人文主义与科学主义的讨论。而人文主义地理学的指标性学术作品便是段义孚发表在《美国地理联合会会刊》一九七六年六月号上的文章《人文主义地理学》，这篇文章被后续的地理学读本广泛引用，也正是这篇代表性的文章使得段义孚被学术界公认为是人文主义地理学大师。
人类逃避的对象之一是自然。严酷的自然环境、突发的自然灾害都会让人们产生逃避的念头。人类逃避的对象之二是文化。逃避喧闹的城市生活，逃避猛于虎的苛政，逃避严厉的宗教禁锢，这些统统都属于逃避文化。人类逃避的对象之三是混沌。混沌的、不清晰的状态令人感到困惑与费解，人们总是试图寻找清晰与明朗。人们宁愿采纳抽象的模型，也不愿接受毫无头绪的“现实”，因为清晰与明朗会给人以“真实存在”的感觉。 人类逃避的对象之四是人类自身的动物性与兽性。人类对自身某些粗鲁的特征感到羞耻和厌恶，于是，做出种种努力，想要逃离这些本性。整容、遮羞等皆属于此类逃避。
人类逃往的目的地也发生着不断的变化。逃避暴风雨，逃回温暖的房屋中，逃避高楼林立的都市区，逃往美好的郊区植物园逃避现实的苦恼，逃往虚幻的童话世界。
“逃避”是一个看似贬义的词汇。然而正是由于人类内心与生具来的逃避心理，推动了人类物质文化和精神文化的创造与进步。在逃避的过程中，人类需要借助各种文化手段（组织、语言、工具等），所以说“逃避”的过程，也是文化创造的过程。
段义孚在本书中的研究范围横跨了地理、景观、文学、历史以及宗教信仰等诸多领域。其文字时常超过文学的极限，他的诠释将人们对现实环境的感受与似乎不太相关于地理学的哲学、心理学、都市计划与景观设计学及人类学方面的见解联系在一起。 本书不单为广大的地理学家所关注，还为建筑学、社会学、心理学等学科的学者所关注。