The frontier issues and development trends in environmental geography: Theoretical progress, methodological innovation, and application exploration

• Published in: Geographical Research Bulletin Vol. 4; pp. 175 - 178
• Main Authors: Liu, Yingming, Cao, Suxia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Resources Economics Research Board 09.03.2025; 資源経済研究会
• Subjects: climate change; environmental geography; environmental monitoring; human-environment interactions; sustainable development
• ISSN: 2758-1446
• DOI: 10.50908/grb.4.0_175

As an interdisciplinary field, environmental geography aims to reveal the complex interactions and dynamic mechanisms between the natural environment and human activities, providing a theoretical foundation and decision-making basis for understanding environmental changes, formulating scientific policies, and promoting sustainable development. In globalization, urbanization, and climate change, this field is transitioning from traditional descriptive studies to quantitative analysis, dynamic simulation, and comprehensive evaluation. Its research scope encompasses global change and regional environmental responses, human-environment interactions and sustainable development, environmental risk assessment and emergency management, ecosystem services and environmental value quantification, urban environmental geography and smart city development, the application of new technologies in environmental monitoring and simulation, multi-scale and multi-factor coupling mechanisms, and environmental governance and ecological civilization construction. Leveraging modern technologies such as big data, remote sensing, GIS, and artificial intelligence, research in this field continues to deepen the understanding of complex environmental systems, significantly enhancing the monitoring, prediction, and management of environmental changes. This progress provides a solid scientific foundation for government decision-making and sustainable societal development, effectively addressing global environmental challenges.