抄録
Environmental geography, as an essential interdisciplinary field bridging the natural and social sciences, focuses on the complex interactions between natural environmental processes and human activities, covering core topics such as the spatial patterns of natural elements, environmental evolutionary dynamics, the adjustment of the human–environment relationship, environmental risk management, and urban sustainable development. In recent years, global climate change, rapid urbanization, and the integration of emerging information technologies (e.g., remote sensing, geographic information systems, big data, and artificial intelligence) have significantly expanded the research paradigms and methodological systems of environmental geography, facilitating deeper exploration of multi-scale and multi-dimensional coupling mechanisms between environmental processes and social systems. This paper systematically reviews the theoretical development and research paradigms of environmental geography. It synthesizes the latest domestic and international advances in natural–social system interaction, environmental monitoring and early warning, ecosystem services assessment, and smart-city-oriented environmental governance, with particular attention to the major challenges of multi-source data integration, interdisciplinary collaboration, environmental modeling, and policy implementation. Through literature analysis and case synthesis, this paper proposes a multidimensional collaborative research framework for environmental geography, aiming to enhance theoretical innovation and methodological progress, and to provide solid scientific support and practical guidance for sustainable development and human–environment coordination amid global environmental change.
