20世纪90年代以来小城镇环境研究进展

小城镇环境问题已成为国内外小城镇研究的新热点。小城镇环境研究对于中国建设和谐社会和社会主义新农村具有重要的意义。本文从国外和国内两方面宏观视角，回顾了20世纪90年代以来小城镇环境研究进展，评述了国内外小城镇环境研究的最新动态和热点。国外学者对小城镇的环境污染种类、工业化与环境、环境规划、环境管理政策、人居环境等研究成果居多。对于中国小城镇环境规划和管理政策的制定具有较好的借鉴意义。国内学者在小城镇人居环境与空间分布特征、可持续发展评价、环境规划、生态小城镇建设、环境污染特征和类型、乡镇企业污染、小城镇与环境相互作用机理等共性问题方面研究取得了较大进展。但国内外小城镇环境研究仍存在许多不足。综合国外最新研究动态和中国小城镇环境研究进展，文章提出了中国小城镇环境研究的方向和重点。

Advance in Research of Small Town Environment in 1990's

The environmental problem has become a new focus in domestic and foreign small town study. The environmental research of small town has vital significance to constructing the new socialism village and the harmonious society. It is necessary to review its development. Based on domestic and foreign points, this paper reviewed the newest progress of environmental research of the small town since 1990s, and commented the newest tendency of small town environmental research in domestic and foreign. Firstly, the foreign scholars in the majority paid attention to the small town environmental pollution type, industrialization and environment, environmental plan, environmental policy system and human settlement environment. The research results will be significantly referenced to constitute policy of small town environment in China. Secondly, the domestic scholars mainly made scientific researches on general environment questions in the small town, such as the small town settlement environment and its spatial distribution characteristic, sustainable development appraisement, environmental plan, ecological small town construction, environmental pollution characteristic and type, rural industry pollution, interactive mechanism between small town development and environment, and so on. Thirdly, the small town environmental research in domestic and foreign cannot keep up with the small town development. Finally, based on the above analysis, the article proposed the future research field and developing trend of the small town environment in China.