Progress and prospect of researches on impacts of environmental changes on Chinese civilization
Fang Xiuqi Ge Quansheng Zheng Jingyun
1 School of Geography, Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875;
2 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101
Researches on environmenal changes and Chinese civilization evolution in recent years has shown that there are really close relationships between the formation and development of Chinese civilization and environment and its changes in China.According to the new findings in environment change and the evolution of Chinese civilization, following conclusions can be made (1) The unique Chinese civilization is unified from multiplex cultures The continuity of Chinese civilization is profited from various types of environmental and regional differences in environmental changes related to the vast area of life supporting environment in China (2) Chinese civilization generally flourishes in the warmer periods on various time scales,even the reverse is not always true.(3) The extreme events of environmental changes may strongly change or even interrupt the development course of Chinese civilization The civilization has been created and developed in the course of coping with and adapting to the negative impacts Further researches on the impacts of environmental changes on Chinese civilization should be focused on three aspects:to commence the study with the natural resources changes induced by the environmental changes,to highlight the identification of the magnitude events of environmental changes, and to understand the civilization through the study on the adaptation to the impacts of environmental changes in China
