环境史续论

环境是指人类周围的空间范围,即人类赖以生存的物质世界。它包括自然环境和人工环境,但是不包括社会环境。生态中心论的提法忽视了人类的主动性和创造性,有些矫枉过正。环境恶化和环境污染,是环境史研究的两大重点。历史地理学、农史林史水利史的部分内容属于环境史,它们与环境史各有侧重,不能等同为一。考古学扩大了环境史研究的视野。环境史与上述学科的关系,体现了环境史跨学科的特点。

Environmental History Continuation

Environment refers to the spatial range surrounding the humankind, i.e. the substantial world which the humankind lives in. It includes natural environment and manual environment but social environment. The parlance of Zoology-Central ignores the humankinds’ initiative and creativity, and may be wrong in some certain. Environmental pollution and environmental deterioration are two emphases of the environmental history. Some contents of the historical geography, agricultural history, forestry history and history of irrigation works belong to the environmental history. With emphasizing on different aspects in study, they should not be considered to be the same as the environmental history. Archaeology widens the environmental history’s studying vision. The relation between the environmental history and the above subjects embodies the environmental history’s character, i.e. interdisciplinary studies.