景观健康概念、特征及其评价

A review on the concept, characteristic and assessment of landscape health.

景观健康是近年来出现于景观生态学与新兴的生态系统健康学领域的一个新的生态学概念 ,旨在探讨人类强烈活动干扰下遭受严重污染与退化、甚至会逐渐消失的景观生态系统的健康问题 .本文针对目前所存在的有关景观健康的基本概念、景观健康的特征与标准进行了详细介绍 ,并就景观健康评价指标的确立、评价时空尺度与等级以及评价方法分别进行了探讨 .最后 ,还强调了在进行景观健康评价时应运用比较的、综合的以及发展的观点开展研究 .

As a new concept emerging from landscape ecology and ecosystem health, landscape health is the subject dealing with ecosystem health for landscapes which, under the disturbance of intense activities from human beings, are seriously polluted and degraded, even facing with the risk of disappearing. The basic concept, characteristics and criteria of landscape health were introduced in this paper, and indicators, scales and hierarchical structures and methods for landscape health assessment were also discussed.It was emphasized that comparative, integrative, and developmental methods should be applied in landscape health assessment.