This paper uses references and chronological series to review the research history of resources environmental carrying capacity, and summarizes its theoretical methods, covering its connotation, research scale and contents, establishing methods of evaluation index system, quantitative methods of indicators, evaluation methods of comprehensive carrying capacity and research trend. This paper analyzes the limits and evolutional trend of existing evaluation of resources environmental carrying capacity, and presents the research direction shall shift from resource evaluation and environmental protection to land spatial planning and sustainable development of eco-environment, which can be a constraint and reference for ecological civilization construction and development. Research on resources environmental carrying capacity is constrained by resource environment, orientated by spatial optimization. A scientific evaluation index system and appropriate evaluation method are key to evaluating resource environmental carrying capacity.