我国环境地学展望

近十多年来,我国环境科学,包括环境地学,取得了显著进展,很有必要对这方面的问题进行总结和剖析,以推动这门新兴学科的发展。本文就环境地学方面的几个问题谈些认识。 一、环境地学的内容及与相邻学科的关系 在讨论环境地学问题时不可避免地会涉

Prospects for Environmental Geoscience in China

In the first part of this article, the author discussed the object, characteristics and scope of environmental geoscience and its relation to other sciences such as total environmental science, geography and ecology, In the second part, the recent advances of environmental geoscience in China have been reviewed in following six aspects: (1) comprehensive investigation on environmental quality of some urban areas, river drainage areas and industrial regions; (2) researches on environmental zoning and environmental planning; (3) researches on geoche-mical behaviors of pollutants in the environment; (4) studies on environmental causes of endemic disearses; (5) studies on environmental background value; (6) researches on pollution meteorology and environmental soil science. In the third part of the article, the author went to the problems how to develop environmental geoscience in China and how to cooperate with other branches of environmental science in the future.