德国的环境变迁与环境史研究--访德国环境史学家亚克西姆·纳得考教授

亚克西姆·纳得考教授是德国著名环境史学家.2002年笔者在美进行环境史学研究期间,专门就德国环境史学问题访问了纳得考教授.访谈主要涉及两方面的内容一是关于德国的环境变迁,尤其是对环境变迁的感知,如自然的思想、景观的概念、绿党的历史、生态现代化的理论、疾病与环境的关系、社会制度与环境的关系、自然保护与文化的关系等;二是从与美国比较的角度分析德国环境史学史,重点探讨环境史在德国的起源和发展、它与全球史的关系、未来的发展趋势等.这个访谈为中国学者了解德国的环境史学提供了基本线索,有助于中国学者深入认识德国环境史的特性.

Environmental Change and Studies of Environmental History in Germany

This paper is an interview with Prof.Joachim Radkau,a leading environmental historian in Germany.It consists of two parts:The first is on environmental change in Germany,especially on the perceptions of environmental change,such as the idea of nature,concept of landscape,history of Die Gruene,theory of ecological modernization,relation of disease and environment,relation of social systems and environment,relation of Naturschutz and Kuturschutz etc;The second is on German environmental historiography from the perspective of comparison with the U.S.A,which focuses on exploring the origin and development of German environmental history and its relation with global history,predicting its new trend in the future.This interview gives basic clues for our Chinese environmental historians to understand German environmental history further and is helpful for us to think about its uniqueness.