探析环境界限理论在中西方的发展和应用

摘要：有关自然环境存在界限的理论最早在1972年 Club of Rome的一份报告 “Limits to Growth”正式提出，随后在西方世界引发了有关于自然各资源是否存在可再生的上限的长久争论。随着生态危机的迫近，环境界限论成功撼动了对不可持续发展的经济增长模式的信仰，人们开始将衡量经济成果的目光从数字转向人类福祉，并最终产生诸如地球界限（ Planetary Boundaries）的具体理论指导。同一时期内，环境界限理论在中国虽然有深厚的生态哲学基础，但有关该理论的探讨和应用缺乏有效的体系。通过梳理和对比中西方有关于环境界限学说的研究成果，分析该理论在西方世界得以有效发展的原因，对进一步探讨该理论在中国促进 生态稳定繁荣的可行性有着借鉴意义。

关键词：中国，生态哲学，环境界限，可持续性

Approaching the Development and Applicationof the Theory of Environmental Limits in China and the West

Abstract: The theoretical discussion about environmental limits was officially addressed in a report commissioned by Club of Rome as early as in 1972: The Limits to Growth. The report has since then triggered a long-standing debate among Western societies on whether there are limits to the availability of environmental resources. With the pressing ecological crisis, the increasing acknowledgement of environmental limits has been successfully destabilizing the prevailing belief in the unsustainable mode of economic growth. The measurement to the economic result is turning away from numbers to human welfare, which has boosted more specific and qualifiable theoretical guidances such as Planetary Boundaries. At the same time, despite its root in the fertile Chinese ecological philosophy, the theory of environmental limits is short of systematic exploration and effective application in China. Through reviewing and comparing researches about the theory of environmental limits in both China and the West, reasons behind the remarkable development of the theory in the West will be analyzed, which will serve as a valuable reference for exploring the feasibility of the theoretical application toward promoting the ecological stability and prosperity in China.
Key words: China, Ecological philosophy, Environmental limits, Sustainability

Biography: Junyu Ke (柯君瑜 ) is affiliated with the Western University in Canada as an Graduate and Administrative Coordinator in the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research. She earned a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University (Canada), and was admitted to the PhD program in the Centre for the Study of Theory and Crticism in Western University, starting at Septermber 2020. Her research interests focus on the interdisciplinary studies of human/nature relationship and the cultivation of ecological consciousness through body movement.