复合生态系统管理理论发端于国外,逐渐被国内学者引入并得到重视和发展。复合生态系统管理是在生态系统管理理论基础上发展起来的,是一门新兴交叉边缘学科和方法。随着科学技术、经济社会和文化的发展,流域及流域经济、流域环境概念又有了更为丰富的内涵。由此,树立流域可持续发展观,从流域环境与发展统一的角度考虑基于流域生态系统、流域经济系统和流域社会系统的流域复合系统管理,实现流域的可持续发展,成为世界各国政府和学者长期关注的热点和焦点。珠江上游流域自然、人文、社会和经济的多元性和复杂性,决定了其开展流域生态系统管理的重要性和必要性。
Complex ecosystem management theory originates from abroad, is gradually focused by domestic scholars. Complex ecosystem management is a new interdisciplinary subject based on ecosystem management theory. With the developing of science and technology, economy, society and culture, drainage basin environment has broader connotation. Thus, the governments and scholars all over the world are long-term focusing on setting up drainage basin sustainable development outlook, considering drainage basin complex system management based on drainage basin ecosystem, drainage basin economic system and drainage basin social system from the unity of drainage basin environment and development. The multiplicity and complexity of nature, humanities, society and economy at the upper reaches of Zhujiang River determine its importance and necessity to carry out drainage basin ecosystem management.