资源科学研究是社会文明发展的一方重要基石。人类-资源关系的演进经历了自然崇拜时期、人本位与技术革命时期和现代协调发展时期三个阶段。真正的资源科学研究缘起于20世纪初期,作为资源科学研究三大支柱的资源地理学、资源生态学和资源经济学发展较快。近二、三十年来的资源科学研究表明,战略化、管理化和数量化是现代资源科学研究的三大趋向。

The resource science research is an important basic building block of the civilization development of society. The evolution of the man-resource relationship has experienced three stages:the period of the worship of nature,the period of selfish departmentalism and technique revolution, and the period of the modern coordinative development. The real resource science research was initiated in the early 20th centry. As the three great pillars of the resource science research,resource geography,resource ecology and resource economics have developed quickly. The resource science research in recent 20-30 years indicates that the modern resource science has three tendencies.(1) Strategical researches on the dynamic prediction. the areal developmental model and the relationship between the resource supply and actual requirement are becoming more active;(2)Managerial researches based on the rational utilization of resources are becoming a hot feild of resource science ; (3)The researches proceed from qualitive analysis to quantitative analysis and modeling.