摘要
什么是环境史?如何研究环境史?对于这类问题我们要有自己的认识。有关环境的研究大体有三类,即:作为自然史研究领域的环境的历史;作为“社会的历史”之研究范围的环境的历史;作为人与自然之关系研究领域的环境史。环境史与环境的历史既有联系,又有区别,后者尤其值得重视。环境史研究与第一类研究和第二类研究的关键区别分别在于它对人和自然的看法,这就决定了我们在研究人与自然相互影响的历程时,会以一种具有特色的人与自然互动的视角来重新解释历史和人事,由此可以领悟环境史研究的“不能”与“能”,并把握它的内在限度和认识特征。环境史研究的兴起是时代与社会现实的产物与要求,它具有重要的理论价值和明确的实践意义。
There are three kinds of research on environment, namely, the history of environ ment as the study of natural history, the history of environment as the study of social history, and the environmental history as the study of relationship betw een human being and nature. There are differences as well as similarities betwee n the environmental history and the history of environment, and the differences are worthy of notice. The knowledge of human being distinguishes environment his tory from the first kind of research, while that of the nature distinguishes it from the second kind of research. So, when we probe into the process of inter-in fluence between human being and nature, we will reread history and human affairs from the special perspective of the interactions of human being and nature. Fro m this, we can understand what we can do and what we cannot do in the research o f environmental history, and grasp its inner limits and features of knowledge. I t is a new era when the realities of society that foster the rise of environment al history. The research on environmental history embodies not only important th eoretical values but also clearly practical significances.
出处
《学术研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2006年第9期12-22,共11页
Academic Research
基金
国家社会科学基金资助项目(编号为02BSS009)成果
