摘要：This issue is dedicated to the topics discussed in the Environment Evolution Commission's session at the Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geo- graphical Union, held from 4 to 9 August 2013. The main goals of the issue are: (1) to discuss various topics regard- ing environmental evolution in different areas during the Pleistocene and Holocene; (2) to quantify and analyze the recent and proposed future climatic trends in the region; and (3) to estimate the human impacts on eco- systems under present and future climatic conditions in the Eurasian and Western Pacific region. To understand the contemporary state of this system, it is necessary to perform an evolutionary analysis of terrestrial environ- ments, one that estimates its stability and variability as influenced by closely interrelated natural environmental trends and anthropogenic impacts. Thus, a natural trend toward cooling, as identified from paleogeographic data, is superimposed upon the process of human-induced warming. This combination of factors influencing the landscape-climatic system in opposite directions decreas- es the system’s stability.
