国内全新世环境变化与人类活动关系研究略评

Review of Research on Correlation of Holocene Environmental Change and Human Activities in China

全新世是地球历史上与人类关系最为密切的一个时期,近年来全球性环境问题的出现使得全新世环境变化与人类活动的关系成为不同学科的研究热点。国内学者的研究表明,人类活动受全新世气候与环境变化的强烈影响,人类在适应环境变化的同时也给环境造成了一定程度的影响,环境在自然变化的背景上叠加了人类活动的作用并且逐步增强。随着学科发展的需要,研究环境变化与人类活动关系的时空尺度应进行相应的调整,研究手段与思路也应该实现由定性到定量、由单学科到多学科综合研究的转变。

The Holocene is a very important period of environment change and human activities. With the appearance of global environmental issues, the correlation of Holocene environmental change and human activities has become the hotspot of many subjects. Chinese scholars＇ researches have shown that the human activities were impacted strongly by the Holocene climate and the environmental changes in China. As one of the key indications of Neolithic culture, agriculture origin was subject to the huge scale of environmental change caused mainly by climate variability. During the Holocene epoch, human activities were affected and controlled by natural environment. Further more, the extreme climate events often made a surprise attack on human being and brought destructive shock to human civilization. At the same time, human influences the environment by various means, and now, the contribution of human activities to environmental changes is becoming more and more notable. For promoting further research, there are two questions that we should take into account： 1. to adjust the study scale of space form single pot to regional or global perspective. 2. to transform the study mode from qualitative to quantitative and from single-disciplinary to muhidisciplinary.