我国因发育了亚洲大陆的主要国际河流而成为全球最重要的上游水道国。近30年来,在全球化趋势下,国际河流的合理利用与保护、生态变化与跨境影响、地缘合作与安全维护等,广受国际关注,成为地理、生态和地缘政治等学科交叉研究的热点。本文按"国际河流"、"跨境水资源"、"跨境生态安全"等关键词,从《地理学报》及其英文版J.Geographical Sciences中检索近30年来发表的相关文献,以此为主要依据,回顾地理学对我国国际河流研究取得的主要进展,判识存在的问题和所面临的挑战;在此基础上,结合科学发展的趋势和我国地缘合作等重大需求,展望研究前景。
China is the most important upstream country in the world, where the major intemational rivers in Asian continent originate. Under the influences of globalization, the transboundary issues, such as the reasonable utilization and protection, ecological change and impact, geopolitical cooperation and eco-security in international rivers, have become a world- wide concem and they are the hot topics of interdisciplinary research in the field of geography, ecology and geopolitics. The paper, based on the literature review, which included key words of "international rivers", "transboundary water resources" and "transboundary eco- security", and articles published in Acta Geographica Sinica (Chinese version) and Joumal of Geographical Sciences (English version) in the past 30 years, reviewed the progress of intemational river studies in China from the perspective of geographical sciences, and identified the key problems, challenges, and key research categories. Furthermore, we prospected the scientific advances and China's geo-cooperation development in the future.