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历史学者总是臆断人类生活在自然世界之外。环境史质疑这种假设,并且坚持人类是自然的一部分,我们对自然施加着影响,同时自然也对我们具有影响。这种新的观念聚焦在三套相互作用的变化之上:地球的各种系统(气候、地理、生态系统)伴随时间的变化,自这些系统中谋求生计的生产模式的变化,以及文化态度的变化及其在艺术、意识形态、科学和政治中的表现。这门新的历史学在其方法上是跨学科的,而在其含义上是跨国界的。
Historians have always assumed that human beings live outside the natural world. Environmental history questions this assumption and insists that mankind is part and parcel of nature, and that we exert an influence upon nature and that nature has its own influence on us as well. This new vision focuses on three sets of interactions: changes in the Earth’s systems (climate, geography, ecosystems) over time, changes in the patterns of production that seek livelihoods in these systems, and cultural attitudes Change and its performance in the arts, ideology, science and politics. The new historiography is interdisciplinary in its approach and is transborder in its meaning.