Carbamate is a kind of high efficiency and wide spectrum pesticides widely used in the agricultural production. However, the environmental pollution and food safety issues resulted from the large amount application of this pesticides have attracted more and more public concerns. Therefore, the development of ideal sample pretreatment methods and more effective instrumental analysis methods has become a research hotspot in this field. Based on 60 relevant literatures at home and abroad, this paper analyzed the separation and extraction methods of carbamate pesticides in environmental samples as well as the advantages and disadvantages of different methods, and summarized the instrumental analysis methods and development trends of carbamate pesticides in order to provide valuable references for the analysis of carbamate pesticides in the environment.