The main task of environmental history research is

There are three main tasks: first, to understand the role and position of nature in human history; The second is to investigate the historical influence of human activities, especially economic production and material life, on the natural environment; The third is to sort out human's ideological understanding, values, religious feelings and aesthetic consciousness about nature.

China's environmental historiography is a booming new historiography, which has achieved fruitful results. However, the theoretical method of this discipline has not yet formed a system, a large number of academic gaps need to be filled, and there are still deviations in understanding many basic issues. Environmental history researchers need to strengthen theoretical discussion, clarify ideas and concepts, provide correct ideas and knowledge for society through in-depth and systematic research, and play their due role in the construction of ecological civilization.