区域可持续发展研究的兴起与作用

我国区域可持续发展研究的兴起,是在全球可持续性科学蓬勃发展中、以着力解决中国区域可持续发展模式为特色的学科创新。将区域作为一个开放、动态变化的系统,探讨其对经济全球化和全球气候变化的响应状态及应对能力,研究区域系统中区域之间的相互作用和相互依赖以及区域内部不断增长的发展需求与资源环境约束之间的协调程度,解剖在科技、体制、文化不断创新驱动下的区域经济持续增长的竞争能力,成为区域可持续发展领域最受关注的科学命题,也使区域可持续发展研究在弥补地球系统科学重自然圈层相互作用、轻自然与人文圈层相互作用的缺陷方面具有独到的学科价值。区域可持续发展研究在助推我国实施可持续发展战略中发挥了重要作用,关于可持续城市化和交通基础设施建设的咨询报告、主体功能区划和灾后重建的资源环境承载能力评价的研究成果以及国家和地方重大地域规划的研制,在促进区域差异化发展、重视资源环境承载能力、优化经济布局、走可持续工业化和城市化道路方面,影响了中央和地方政府决策,转换为政府行为,已经或正在改变着中国区域可持续发展的进程。

The Rise and Effects of Regional Sustainable Development Studies in China

The rise of regional sustainable development studies in China is a kind of academic innovation at the background of the rapid development of global sustainability science,with the characteristic of focusing on exploring the regional sustainable development models in China.By taking a region as an open and dynamic system,the most attentive academic topics in the field of regional sustainable development studies include: to analyze a region’s adaptation capacity to economic globalization and global climatic change,to study the interrelationship among various regions and the coordination degree between continuous needs for development and constrains from resources and environment,and to explore the competitive power of regional economy driven by innovations of sciences and technology,system reform and culture.Then,regional sustainable development studies have their specific academic value to make up the weak aspect of the earth system science,which used to emphasize studies on the interrelationship among natural spheres and neglect studies on the interrelationship between the human sphere and the natural spheres.Regional sustainable development studies have made great contributions to promote the implementation of sustainable development strategy in China.For example,the following major research achievements including the consultation report on sustainable urbanization and the construction of transport infrastructure,major function oriented zoning,assessment on the carrying capacity of resources and environment in the disaster-stricken regions,etc.,have had great effects to change the central and local governments’ decision-making and behavior and thus the progress of China’s regional sustainable development.