本文从自然资源的基本概念和基本特点入手,首先明确了自然资源科学的性质及其研究的核心问题与研究任务,阐述了自然资源科学研究的主要内容,并根据一些经济发达国家的经验,提出了该学科研究的几种新趋向;然后,根据自然资源科学中各门学科之间及其与相邻学科之间的关系,阐明了自然资源科学的学科体系。

According to the explication of the concept and characteristics of natural resources, this paper further define the nature of the science of natural resources. In line with the key question of the science, it put forward the task of the science research.Then, it expound the main contents of the science research. And on the basis of experiences of some developed countries, it gives new trends of the future research. At last, the paper expound the branch system of the science of natural resources on the basis of the relations between it and other sciences which are closed to it.