城市化与全球环境变化研究已引起全球范围学者的广泛重视。改革开放以来,我国城市化水平不断上升,城市化质量不断提高,同时城市化也产生资源过度消耗、环境污染、生境退化等诸多问题,尤其是近年来气候异常、自然灾害频发等使学术界更加重视城市化与全球环境变化的研究,开始思考人类应该以怎样的方式处理人地关系的问题。文章在分析国内学者关于城市化与全球环境变化研究的界入视角与关注重点的基础上,对国内研究从研究内容、方法与尺度3方面进行评价,并指出从人文地理学角度出发的3个研究议题,包括城市生计与全球环境变化、城市系统脆弱性与全球环境变化以及城市管治与全球环境变化。
Research on urbanization and global environmental change has drawn extensive attention of worldwide scholars.Since the reform and opening up,the level and quality of urbanization in China have been constantly improved,and at the same time,urbanization has also produced lots of problems such as excessive consumption of resources,environmental pollution,and habitat degradation.Especially in recent years there are more and more abnormal weathers and natural disasters.So the academic communities pay more attentions to the researches on urbanization and global environmental change,and start thinking about how human beings should deal with the man-land relationship.Based on the analysis of the perspectives and foci on China's researches on urbanization and global environmental change,this article reviews and comments on domestic related researches in the aspects of context,methodology and scale,and proposes three subjects of research from the view of human geography,including social life and global environmental change,vulnerability of urban system and global environmental change,and urban governance and global environmental change.