PROGRESS IN RESEARCH OF CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION
环境危急形势研究进展

Over the past decade, the research of environmental critical situation has captured the interests of the scientific community and has made considerable headway. Some issues of environmental situation, the concept of the environmental criticality, the research work at present, forces driving environmental change and societal responses have summarized in this paper. And this paper points out that critical environment does exist in the world, but is always ignored easily, so we have to pay full attention to this. According the process of international and national research, social and economic factors should be fully considered in the research of environmental criticality which needs analyzing together with regional sustainable development and global change.