论人水和谐

A Study of Harmony of Water-Human Relationship

人水关系是人与自然关系的重要组成部分,其本质体现了人与人的关系。可从两种理想类型入手探讨人水关系。在"人水不谐"型里,人与水环境的互动呈恶性循环:水污染导致居民患病,影响经济发展,诱发贫困;随着污染危害的加深,出现人口迁移,进而加剧社会分化与社会不平等等次生社会问题。"人水和谐"型为人与水互动的良性循环:在良好的生态环境下发展生产,产生良好的经济效益,可持续的经济发展为保护环境提供了动力,也为社会发展提供经济基础。重视当代中国的现代性特征及生态知识,是实现由"人水不谐"向"人水和谐"转型的认知前提。

The human-water relationship is an important part of the human-nature relationship, and in essence it is a human-human relationship. The paper analyzes the two ideal types of human-water relationship. One is the disharmonious human-water relationship in which the relationship between human and water enters into the vicious cycle. Water pollution leads to disease-stricken people, affects economic growth, and thus results in poverty. As pollution aggravates, some people migrate from the polluted areas and settle down in new areas, which deepens the new social inequality and other social problems induced by pollution. The other is the harmonious human-water relationship in which the relationship between human and water enters into the benign development. Developing production in a good ecosystem may make higher profits. And the sustainable economic development gives impetus to environment protection, and provides necessary economic condition for social development as well. The transition from the former type to the latter type is the fundamental way to construct a society emphasizing harmonious water-human relationship, while the cognition of the characteristics of modernity and ecology plays an important role in such construction.