随着工业革命和全球经济的发展,人类赖以生存的能源与资源面临枯竭,生态环境的恶化越来越严重,只有建设生态文明才能迎接这一挑战。作为人才培养摇篮的高等教育在生态文明的建设无疑承担了新的重要使命。本文对当前国内外高等教育促进生态文明建设的实例进行了整理和分析,提出高等教育在促进生态文明建设中具有巨大作用,主要表现在四个方面:培养人的生态理念;创新和孕育生态科技;对社会提供生态示范以及为完善生态法制体系提供智慧。
With the development of industrious revolution and global economy, human survival faces the increasing threat of resources exhaustion, environmental deterioration and other issues. The paper holds the view that only by building ecological civilization can these issues be addressed and as the cradle for training talents, higher education should shoulder the historical responsibility of promoting ecological civilization. With a detained analysis on concrete examples of the roles of higher education in building ecological civilization both at home and abroad, this essay focuses on the functions of higher education from four aspects: cultivating ecological ideas, creating ecological technology, setting good examples through green universities and offering intellectual resources for the improvement of ecological legal system.