林景星教授的英文著作QuaternaryEnvironmentintheEasternChina（《中国东部的第四纪环境》）一书出版于1996年。当时我为之所作的前言中曾说，这一工作不仅为我们了解西太平洋及欧亚中部环境的历史有重要意义，并且也是我国学者对国际地圈与生物圈计划（IGBP）的核心计划之一 Professor Lin Jingxing’s English book QuaternaryEnvironmentintheEasternChina (“Quaternary environment in eastern China”) was published in 1996. At the time, the foreword I made for that occasion stated that this work not only gave us an insight into the history of the environment in the Western Pacific and Central Eurasia but also one of our country’s core programs of the International Geosphere and Biosphere Program (IGBP)