一、水土保持是一门独立的学科 在当前世界面临着人口爆炸、粮食危机、能源危机、生态危机、环境危机、土地沙化和水土流失的情况下,水土保持研究是一项极其重要的科学工作。但对于水土保持究竟是不是一门独立学科的问题,目前认识尚不一致。有人认为,水土保持是由土壤、水利、农业、林业、牧业、经济、地质及地理等专业共同凑在一起的综合体,其中每个学科在水土保持研究的领域内,都各有自己特定的研究对象,因而水土保持不是一门独立学科研究的内容,而是一项群众运动。 所谓学科,是科学这个大的体系中有特 I. Soil and Water Conservation Is an Independent Discipline Soil and water conservation research is an extremely important scientific task in the current world when population explosion, food crisis, energy crisis, ecological crisis, environmental crisis, land desertification and water and soil erosion are faced. . However, there is still no consensus on whether soil and water conservation is an independent subject or not. Some people think that soil and water conservation is a combination of soil, water conservancy, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, economy, geology and geography. Each discipline has its own specific field of soil and water conservation research Therefore, soil and water conservation is not an independent research subject, but a mass movement. The so-called discipline is a special science in this large system