环境保护在构建和谐社会中的地位与路径选择

Role and Pathway of Environmental Protection towards Harmonious Society

构建和谐社会是我国社会主义建设的重要目标,人与自然和谐是其中的重要因素,体现了和谐社会建设对环境保护的要求。为了分析和谐社会中蕴涵的环境保护要素,需要构建一个和谐社会与环境保护的概念模型。这个概念模型包含环境保护与五个主流领域的融合与交叉,即在和谐社会的大框架下,环境保护在这五个领域内的集中体现。一是在环境与政治领域,和谐社会就是要求将生态文明作为一种治国理念;二是在环境与健康领域,就是要将环境问题上升到基本民生问题,体现以人为本的原则;三是在环境与社会领域,就是要保护环境,维护社会公平与正义,维护公众权益;四是在环境与经济领域,要推动环境与经济的高度融合,以环境优化发展;五是要将环境问题放在全球化的背景下来考虑,推动国际环境公平与和谐世界的建立。

To build a harmonious society is the key objective of the Socialism construction, in which the harmony between man and nature is one of the crucial elements. This paper, by basing on the study of some important issues, aims to set up a conceptual model for environmental protection and harmonious society, and to address the core principles. It proposes the roadmap and institutional arrangements for strengthening environmental protection towards harmonious society while confronting the serious challenges of environmental and resources in the process of economic and social development in China.