探析環境界限理論在中西方的發展和應用

摘要：有關自然環境存在界限的理論最早在1972年 Club of Rome的一份報告 “Limits to Growth”正式提出，隨后在西方世界引發了有關于自然各資源是否存在可再生的上限的長久爭論。隨著生態危機的迫近，環境界限論成功撼動了對不可持續發展的經濟增長模式的信仰，人們開始將衡量經濟成果的目光從數字轉向人類福祉，并最終產生諸如地球界限（ Planetary Boundaries）的具體理論指導。同一時期內，環境界限理論在中國雖然有深厚的生態哲學基礎，但有關該理論的探討和應用缺乏有效的體系。通過梳理和對比中西方有關于環境界限學說的研究成果，分析該理論在西方世界得以有效發展的原因，對進一步探討該理論在中國促進 生態穩定繁榮的可行性有著借鑒意義。

關鍵詞：中國，生態哲學，環境界限，可持續性

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.