环境地质研究进展与展望

环境地质学与其他地质学科的最大区别是，把人类活动作为一种地质作用营力加以研究，这是前所未有的。面向国民经济、国家重大工程建设和城市化的快速兴起与发展，环境地质学科得到了迅速发展。关注气候变化、海岸带发展、城市化、地下水资源与地质环境的相互关系至关重要。要重视地质灾害形成发育的规律，特别是人类工程活动与自然地质作用相互关系的研究。地质灾害防治和群测群防，在今后一个相当长的时期内仍然是研究重点。持久地为社会、为公众、为政府服务，提高地质科学在环境保护中的作用与地位，提高公众对环境地质学的认知与认同，才能采取共同行动，为可持续发展做出贡献。

Environmental geology:advances and prospects

The greatest difference between environmental geology and other branches of geological sciences lies in that environmental geology studies human activities as a geological agent, which has never been considered before. By orienting itself toward the national economic development, major construction projects and urbanization, environmental geology has developed rapidly. The relationships of climatic change, development of coastal zones, urbanization and groundwater resources with the geoenvironment are of vital importance. Attention should be paid to the study of the regularities of formation and development of geological hazards, especially the study of the interrelation between human engineering activities and natural geological processes. The prevention and control and mass monitoring and prevention of geological hazards will be still the focus of study in a rather long period of time. Only when we continuously serve the society, public and government, raise the role and position of geosciences in environmental protection and assist the public in having a better understanding of envirohmental geology, can we take joint action and make contributions to sustainable development.