【People's Education Press】High School Geography Elective Compulsory Course III
This course covers the entire textbook of the People's Education Press High School Geography Elective Compulsory Course III, systematically explaining the functions of natural environment services, utilization of natural resources, environmental issues, and the impact of resource security and environmental security on national security, as well as strategies and international cooperation for safeguarding national security.
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Course Overview
📚 Content Summary
This course covers the entire textbook of the People's Education Press High School Geography Elective Course III, systematically explaining the service functions of natural environments, utilization of natural resources, environmental issues, and the impact of resource and environmental security on national security, as well as strategies and international cooperation for safeguarding national security.
Explore the mysteries of resources and environment, protect the bottom line of national security.
Author: Geography Curriculum and Textbook Research and Development Center, Institute of Curriculum and Textbook Research, People's Education Press
Acknowledgments: Approved by the National Textbook Committee Expert Committee (2019)
🎯 Learning Objectives
- Identification and Classification: Accurately distinguish the four service functions of natural environments and provide examples of their real-world manifestations.
- Analysis and Evaluation: Analyze how the attribute characteristics of natural resources (quantity, quality, spatial distribution) affect human development and utilization activities.
- Understanding and Reflection: Explain the mechanisms behind environmental problems and use the Environmental Kuznets Curve and ecological footprint theory to assess the sustainability of regional development.
- Synthesize and analyze the main factors affecting resource security (endowment, supply-demand capacity, consumption demand), and list key approaches to ensuring resource security.
- Combine data and charts to describe China’s energy supply and demand characteristics, and explain the specific impacts of oil and coal exploitation on energy security and the environment.
- Interpret the challenges facing China’s food security, deeply understand the essence, implementation conditions, and strategic importance of the "Storing Grain in Land" policy within national security.
- Analytical Skills: Explain the pathways through which environmental security issues (sudden and cumulative) affect national security, and differentiate between responses to transboundary pollution.
- Evaluative Skills: Assess the role of ecological restoration measures and functional zoning in nature reserves in maintaining national ecological security through case studies (e.g., Yichun, Fenglin).
- Integrated Application: Identify the impact of anthropogenic carbon emissions on the global carbon cycle, and propose national security strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change.
- Holistic Thinking: Distinguish the relationship among resources, environment, and national security under the context of ecological civilization, and comprehend the strategic significance of shifting from “reactive response” to “proactive prevention.”
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Overview: This course explores the core mechanisms by which natural environments serve as the foundation for human survival. By studying the four service functions of natural environments—provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural services—students will understand the limiting characteristics of natural resources in terms of quantity, quality, and spatial distribution. The course further analyzes the mechanisms behind environmental problems and their harms to human society, using tools such as the Environmental Kuznets Curve and ecological footprint to examine the dynamic balance between environment and sustainable development.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identification and Classification: Accurately distinguish the four service functions of natural environments and illustrate their real-world applications with examples.
- Analysis and Evaluation: Analyze how the attribute characteristics (quantity, quality, spatial distribution) of natural resources influence human development and utilization activities.
- Understanding and Reflection: Clarify the mechanisms generating environmental problems, and apply the Environmental Kuznets Curve and ecological footprint theory to evaluate the sustainability of regional development.
Overview: This course delves into the intrinsic logic between resource security and national security, covering fundamental theories of resource security, safeguarding approaches, and a focused analysis of China’s current status and strategic choices in three core areas: energy (oil, coal), food (farmland protection, "Storing Grain in Land"), and marine space resource development. Through this study, students will grasp that resource security is a vital cornerstone of national security and gain insight into key strategic measures China employs to address resource risks.
Learning Outcomes:
- Synthesize and analyze the main factors affecting resource security (endowment, supply-demand capacity, consumption demand), and list primary pathways to ensure resource security.
- Combine data and charts to describe China’s energy supply and demand characteristics, and explain the specific impacts of oil and coal development on energy security and the environment.
- Interpret the challenges confronting China’s food security, and deeply understand the meaning, implementation conditions, and strategic position of the "Storing Grain in Land" policy within national security.
Overview: This instructional design covers the mechanisms by which environmental security affects national security, focusing on sudden environmental incidents, transboundary pollutant transfer, and international cooperation responses. It also thoroughly examines security risks arising from ecological degradation, emphasizes the necessity of ecological restoration and nature reserve construction, and ultimately focuses on global climate change, anthropogenic carbon emissions, and their challenges to national living space and strategic resources.
Learning Outcomes:
- Analytical Skills: Explain the pathways through which environmental security issues (sudden and cumulative) impact national security, and differentiate between strategies for addressing transboundary pollution.
- Evaluative Skills: Assess the effectiveness of ecological restoration measures and functional zoning in nature reserves in maintaining national ecological security through case studies (e.g., Yichun, Fenglin).
- Integrated Application: Identify the impact of human-induced carbon emissions on the global carbon cycle, and propose national security strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change.
Overview: This instructional design focuses on how China safeguards national security in the realms of resources and environment within the context of ecological civilization. It covers everything from the concept of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature to practical measures such as oil reserves, ecological redline demarcation, emergency response systems, and international climate negotiations, aiming to cultivate students’ systematic awareness of national security and a global perspective.
Learning Outcomes:
- Holistic Thinking: Distinguish the relationship among resources, environment, and national security under ecological civilization, and understand the strategic significance of shifting from “reactive response” to “proactive prevention.”
- Regional Awareness and Geographic Practice: Master the distribution of China’s oil reserve bases, transportation corridor development, and the scope of ecological redlines, and be able to develop emergency response plans based on real-life cases (e.g., campus water pollution).
- Human-Environment Coordination and International Cooperation: Embrace green production and lifestyle practices, understand China’s leadership role and the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” in global environmental governance (e.g., climate change negotiations).