Tsinghua University established the Department of Geography on 1928, with the famous geologist Weng Wenhao as the first department head. Geography department enrollment 1929. Due to the development of the department, by 1933, the discipline had been expanded, and there were three groups of geography, geology and meteorology, which trained talents in geography, geology and meteorology respectively, and changed its name to geography department.
After the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression started, Tsinghua, Peking University and Nankai merged, and/kloc-0 was changed to Southwest United University in Kunming, Yunnan in April, 938. The former Department of Geology of Tsinghua and the Department of Geology of Peking University merged into the Department of Geology, Geography and Meteorology. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the three schools moved back, and the former Tsinghua Geology Department and Peking University Geology Department returned to their respective schools. The Department of Orthopedic Meteorology in Tsinghua became an independent department.
At the beginning of 1950, because the country was in urgent need of geological talents at that time, the Department of Geology of the Department of Geology of Tsinghua set up a separate department of geology, leaving only the department of geology.
1952, in order to adapt to national construction, colleges and universities all over the country made major adjustments. Tsinghua's original geography department was transferred to Peking University, and together with several teachers from the history department of yenching university, the Department of Geology and Geography was established. At that time, drawing on the experience of cultivating talents in the Soviet Union, we set up geography majors in two disciplines, worked out teaching plans, and trained specialized talents. Department of Geology and Geography, 1952 has a major in physical geography. 1955 set up two majors of economic geography and geomorphology, introduced some geological teachers, and began to recruit students majoring in geology. This model is an important change in the cultivation of higher geography talents in China.
Due to the cultural revolution, colleges and universities stopped enrolling students 1966.
Peking University Department of Geology and Geography resumed enrollment 1972. At that time, considering the influence of environmental pollution, urbanization, satellite remote sensing technology and other developed countries on the development of geography, it was decided to combine science majors with applications, physical geography with environmental protection, economic geography with urban and rural planning, and geomorphology with remote sensing technology to cultivate applied talents in science. This raises the cultivation of geographical talents to a new stage. It is not only a combination of literature and theory, but also a new era of literature, theory, application and technology integration.
1978 geography and geology set up geography department and geology department respectively. The geography department consists of three majors: physical geography, geomorphology and economic geography. With the development of the discipline, more and more attention is paid to application. In order to let more people know about the new changes of this old discipline, the Department of Geography was renamed as the Department of Urban and Environmental Studies on 1989.
Due to the state's emphasis on environmental issues, Peking University merged the former Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences with the Environmental Science Center in 2002 to form the Environmental Research Institute. In May 2007, the school decided to separate the two parts of the School of Environment, and the former Department of Urban and Environmental Studies established the School of Urban and Environmental Studies. The general guiding ideology of college construction is to create a world-class goal. Closely combined with the needs of the country, with discipline construction as the core, we will vigorously strengthen the construction of teaching staff and teaching and scientific research conditions, vigorously improve the talent training and scientific research level of Urban and Environmental College, and actively promote exchanges and cooperation between the College and world-class universities. Through 3-5 years' hard work, the faculty, facilities, teaching and research level and the level of major disciplines of the college have maintained the domestic leading level, and some aspects have strived to reach the international first-class level.
All-round and multi-level international hospital architecture model
Discipline construction will implement an all-round and multi-level internationalization strategy in teaching, scientific research, management and social services. Adopt the internationally accepted school-running mode and evaluation system, strengthen joint school-running and substantive cooperative research with world-class universities, research institutes, management institutions and enterprises, establish high-level talent training bases at home and abroad, and promote the internationalization of discipline construction.
Highlight the characteristics of China and give full play to the comprehensive advantages of disciplines
College construction pays attention to the combination of international experience and China's national conditions. In discipline construction, we should pay attention to the construction of existing key disciplines and key laboratories, and support and cultivate disciplines and important emerging disciplines urgently needed by some countries. Give full play to the advantages of the college's complete disciplines, and pay attention to the combination of arts, science and engineering related disciplines in the discipline layout. Since 2000 1, the key projects and major research projects of NSFC have been approved every year, including 3 key projects in 2004, 2 major research projects in1and 2 major research projects in 2005. In 2008, 20 national natural science foundation projects were approved, among which the key project 1. From 200 1 to 2004, more than two 863 and 973 projects participated and hosted every year. The average number of horizontal projects that directly enter our hospital every year is about 15.
In 2003, two projects in our institute won the first prize of natural science from the Ministry of Education, namely "Temporal and Spatial Differentiation of Heavy Metal Forms, Influencing Factors and Ecological Effects" led by Professor Tao Shu and "Study on Carbon Cycle and Vegetation Productivity of Terrestrial Ecosystem in China" led by Academician Fang Jingyun, and "Regional Evaluation, Regional Strategy and Operation Approach of Agricultural and Rural Development in China" led by Professor Cai Yunlong won the first prize of the Ministry of Education in that year.
In 2005, the "China Terrestrial Ecosystem Productivity and Carbon Cycle Research Project" led by Academician Fang Jingyun won the second prize of National Natural Science. Professor Xu (ranked fourth) won the third prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award for "Satellite Monitoring and Prediction of Environmental Evolution in Southwest Coastal Oil Areas of Bohai Sea".
The basic research and applied research of the School of Urban and Environmental Sciences are carried out at the same time, and the research funds are close. The research funds mainly come from projects entrusted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other local governments. The research funds directly used by the college are maintained at more than 60 million yuan each year, and the research funds in 20 12 are nearly 80 million yuan. Every year, key projects and major research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China are approved.
The number of papers published in international and domestic journals has increased steadily, with more than 80 papers published in sci and ssci journals every year. The average impact factor of papers published since 20 1 1 is greater than 3.0. Academician Fang Jingyun and Professor Park Shilong published six papers in top journals such as science and nature.