环境史学论要简

环境史学是历史学与自然科学结合得最为紧密的一门新兴边缘交叉学科。其研究对象是以人类与环境的互动，自然生态环境对人类活动的制约，人类活动对原生态自然环境的影响等等为主要内容。生态文明史观是核心指导理论；其研究方法在承续传统史学的研究方法外，大量借助于其他社会科学、自然科学的方法，其中，史实综合互证法、实地调查法、口述访谈法、计量统计法为最为有效的研究方法。该学科扩大了史学的研究领域，在增加科学要素，强化史学的公共性等方面发挥作用巨大。

An Brief Introduction to Environmental History

Environmental history is an emerging cross-discipline which bridges the gap between history and the natural sciences. Its object of study mainly includes human-environment interaction, natural ecological and environmental constraints on human activity, impact of human activities on the natural environment. Ecological civilization view of history is the central guiding theory; its research methods are made up of traditional history research methods, and methods employed in other social sciences and natural sciences, among which comprehensive mutual verification between history and facts, fieldwork, oral interview, statistical methods are the most effective. The discipline expands the field of historiography, and plays an important role in increasing scientific elements and strengthening the publicity of historiography.