【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 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)

1. Identification and Classification: Accurately distinguish the four service functions of natural environments and provide examples of their real-world manifestations.
2. Analysis and Evaluation: Analyze how the attribute characteristics of natural resources (quantity, quality, spatial distribution) affect human development and utilization activities.
3. 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.
4. Synthesize and analyze the main factors affecting resource security (endowment, supply-demand capacity, consumption demand), and list key approaches to ensuring resource security.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Analytical Skills: Explain the pathways through which environmental security issues (sudden and cumulative) affect national security, and differentiate between responses to transboundary pollution.
8. 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).
9. 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.
10. 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.”