中文摘要：

随着经济的快速发展和快速的城市化,人类生存环境不断发生变化.人居环境已成为地理学、人居环境学、社会学等研究的热点问题.对近年来国内外人居环境研究文献进行系统梳理,研究发现：国内对于人居环境的研究主要集中于不同尺度下人类住区适宜性的评价;国外对于人居环境的研究范围较广,在研究尺度上更加多样性.文章对国内外人居环境的研究进行了比较发现：国外在研究空间和时间尺度上比国内更深更广,国外研究主体类型更为丰富,在研究角度上更集中于人类与环境的关系、人类可持续发展的途径和非正规居住区升级改造问题.在此基础上,对人居环境的研究进行了述评和展望.

英文摘要：

With the rapid development of economy and urbanization, the living environment of human beings has been changing. Human settlements environment has become a hot issue in the study of geography, human settlement and sociology. Through systematically sorting out literature on living environment both at home and abroad in recent years , the study found that： domestic research mainly concentrates in suitability evaluation at different scales, while abroad research scope is wide and the research scale is more various. The comparison, of the do- mestic and foreign study on living environment find many differences, the abroad study at the spatial and temporal scales is deeper than the domestic research, the research type is more abundant, the research angle is more fo- cused on the relationship between human beings and the environment,the sustainable development of human be- ings and the informal settlements upgrading problem. On the basis of this, I reviewed and prospected the human settlement environment.