城市史是民族史、国家史的重要构成，城市生态环境史则是城市史的关键组分。我国城市生态环境史系统研究的缺失，使历史生态环境的优秀资源、演进特征与经验教训不被认知和利用，是造成当今生态环境困境的原因之一。为扭转这一情况，并有效提升城市生态修复与生态建设的效益，本课题以近代高速发展且生态环境剧烈变动的上海为例，对其近代生态环境史进行研究。主要包括：历史生态环境理论体系（生态服务功能演变理论，生态环境质量分布格局理论，生态环境-社会经济耦合效应理论）和分析方法体系（多维数据时-空集成法、“分-叠-统”法、“辨特”-“因果”法）研究；上海近代城市生态环境史数据库研究；上海近代生态环境评价及关键问题鉴别探究；上海近代生态环境演变的时空状态、模式识别和机理表征研究。本课题对深入认识城市生态环境的演进规律，改善并持续维持其有机性、韧性和生命力，具有理论探索和实践应用的参考价值。

Urban history is the main composition of Ethnic history and National history, while urban ecological environment history is the key part of urban history. There is a lack of systematic study on the urban ecological environment history. It leads to the outstanding resources, evolution characteristics and experiences in ecological environment history unacknowledged and utilized, and it results in the decline of ecological environment to some extent. Coping with this problem, and trying to enhance the quality of current ecological restoration and ecological construction benefits, the study on urban ecological environment history in Modern Shanghai is carried out. This study takes the city of Shanghai as an example, which experienced a rapid urban development with dramatic change on ecological environment, to have a thorough and systematic exploration on its historical ecological environment materials in modern times. The study is expanded as follows: the exploration of theories on ‘historical urban ecological environment"(including the theory on ecological service function evolution, the theory on ecological environment quality spatial distribution, the theory on cooping effect between ecological environment-social economics) and research methodology (including integrated usage of ’Multidimensional temporal-spatial analysis’, ‘Typing-Overlapping-Unifying’ and ‘Characteristic recognition’-‘Cause & result ’); the database building for historical ecological environment materials in Modern Shanghai; the ecological environment assessment and key problem identification in Modern Shanghai and the temporal-spatial evolution conditions, pattern identification and mechanism representation of ecological environment evolution in Modern Shanghai. With a deep understanding of this above, this study will help to improve and maintain the urban ecological environment being in order, resilience and vitality and also promote the symbiotic cooperation of urban and rural eco-system, which is high of dual value on theoretical exploration and practical application.