Professor Hou Yongjian's Reflections on"Environmental Destruction Theory"and Its Academic Significance
Since the 1980s,academia has tended to give negative evaluations of China's historically agriculture-based development models and processes.Professor Hou Yongjian summarizes this trend as the"Environ-mental Destruction Theory"and conducts an academic review of it.His reflections on the"Environmental Destruction Theory"and his proposed research interest in the"creation of human habitats"represent a profound consideration of Chinese environmental history,demonstrating innovation and progress in inter-disciplinary knowledge systems and research perspectives.Starting from the perspective of the people's right to survival and development,Professor Hou reexamines the historical understanding and evaluation criteria regarding the relationship between agricultural development and the environment.He emphasizes the importance of grounding this research in the historical practice of China's agricultural civilization and accurately identifying examples of"optimization"in the history of human-nature relationships.His goal is to build a discourse system with Chinese characteristics for understanding and interpreting environmental history,while continuously deepening our comprehension of the human-nature relationship through aca-demic practice.His efforts reflect the pursuit of truth,goodness,and perfection in scholarly research.