Abstract:

Interregional ecoenvironmental relationship (IRER) is a new relationship type among different regions,which comes into being along with the increasingly tough environmental conflicts and differs from interregional social & economic relationship in many aspects.In this paper,the authors made a theoretical research on the IRER,an important subject in the theoretical and practical fields of environmental science,and preliminarily study on the connotation,development,characteristics,types and other foundational aspects (including environmental cooperation and conflicts) of IRER's;Meanwhile,authors expatiated on three causes of formation of interregional environmental conflicts and its countermeasures,and tried to analyze regional environmental problems from the new angle of the environmental conflicts in order to explore new ways to solve the interregional environmental conflicts and the environmental problems.Taking Jiangsu,a developed eastern province of China,as a case,this paper studied on the environmental conflicts and the measures of environmental cooperation between Jiangsu province and its surrounding provincial districts.The result shows that the environmental situation of Jiangsu province is not optimistic,and the conflicts of environmental interests between Jiangsu and other provincial districts will get tougher,for Jiangsu is situated lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River,and is a netimport resources province.It has been suggested for Jiangsu province that environmental cooperation with other regions should be strengthened to resolve the severe regional environmental conflicts.

Key words: interregional ecoenvironmental relationship, environmental benefits, environmental conflicts, environmental cooperation, Jiangsu province