脆弱性内涵、评价与研究趋势综述

脆弱性是20世纪80年代以来国际上全球环境生态变化和可持续发展研究中频繁出现的一个较新概念，脆弱性分析与评价也是目前环境学、灾害学和社会经济发展研究的一个热点和难点。针对此，本文对20世纪80年代以来脆弱性内涵的演变进行了梳理，对脆弱性评价的步骤和方法进行了总结。最后，对脆弱性研究的趋势进行了分析预测。

Review of content, evaluation and research trends of vulnerability

With the international global environmental change and sustainable development of ecological studies, vulnerability is a relatively new concept appearing frequently since 1980s, 20th century. Vulnerability analysis and evaluation are currently hot and difficult topics for the environmental studies, disaster studies and socio-economic development studies. This paper sorted on the evolution of the connotation of vulnerability since the 80s and summarized the vulnerability assessment procedures and methods, finally analyzed and forecasted the research trends of vulnerability.