Capital Normal University is a key university listed in the 211 Project. The college of Environmental Resources and Tourism includes three specialties, separately, geographical science, environmental resources and urban & rural planning management, and geographical information system. As a Beijing municipal key construction subject, the natural geography specialty started to recruit master students in 1982, and now has 9 research directions and over in-school 70 graduate students. Among the graduated graduate students, not a few have been enrolled as doctoral students in the famous colleges and universities at home and abroad, and most of them have become the backbone of government departments, enterprises and institutions. The specialty also recruits doctoral students based on close cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences and Academy of Agricultural Science. There is an excellent teachers team, comprising 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences, 6 professors, and 3 tutors for doctoral students. Among them, 18 possess a professional title of associate professor or above, and 12 have a doctor's degree and 6 are doing postdoctoral studies. Additionally, there are over 10 visiting professors, researchers and famous scholars from home and abroad.

With solid scientific research strength, the college covers a wide range of studies, including resources, ecology, environment, information technology, sustainable development, urban planning, tourism development and planning, and so forth. Meanwhile, it also assumes a batch of state, province, ministry or municipal-level research projects, among which there are 3 projects of the 863 Project, 2 of the 973 Project and 5 of the National Natural Science Fund.

The college has good learning and research conditions, and possesses a natural geographical basic laboratory, an environmental monitoring laboratory, an education simulation multi-functional laboratory, a landscape ecological laboratory, and an environmental resources and geographical information laboratory. Among them, the environmental resources and geographical information laboratory is a Beijing municipal key laboratory; the usable floor space is 716m2 and the total value of the equipments is more than 6 million yuan. The college also has 100 thousand books, 2 computer network classrooms, 3 multimedia classrooms, 1 automatic meteorological observation park, and 1 astronomical observatory.

Theory of course and teaching (geography)

Tutor: Doctor Lin Peiying, professor

The cultivation of graduate students in the direction of geographical education was started in 1982, and up to now has a history of 20 years. This direction provides those who aim to work in geographical education with the following opportunities for professional development:

l Application of modern information technologies in geographical education: graduate students in this direction are required to master the basic information technologies and the theories of teaching at the same time, and know about the latest development of application of information technology in geographical education, so as to lay a foundation for becoming professional talents in this field.

l Environmental education: through participation in various practical activities and research projects related to environmental education, to obtain the basic theoretical and practical abilities required for environmental education teaching and researches in primary and middle schools, colleges and universities, and the society.

l Theory of geographical courses and teaching: research the latest issues in the reform and development of geographical courses for middle schools, to acquire the necessary theories, abilities and attitudes for the successful development in such research fields as course setup, textbook studies, class teaching, etc.

Besides the above fields, it is also possible for the graduate students to realize other targets of individual professional development related to geographical education.

Natural geography

01 Cartography and geographical information system

Tutor: Academician Liu Xianlin, researcher, tutor for doctoral students

Doctor Gong Huili, professor, tutor for doctoral students (recruit master and doctoral students simultaneously)

Doctor Zhao Wenji, associate professor

Geographical information system (GIS) is a high-tech subject formed by combination of geoscience with computer science and space science etc, and is also one of the subjects that have the most activity and the most favorable development prospect in computer application fields and the information industry. The birth of GIS meets the development step of science and technology and the urgent requirements of the society for talents. Based on the advantages of the university in related subject and talents, and as the youngest subject under the College of Geography, it covers the following three directions: cartography, remote sensing, and GIS.

This specialty cultivates high-level professional talents who have the basic theories, knowledge and skills in GIS, remote sensing and cartography, able to undertake scientific research, software development & maintenance or teaching in research institutes, colleges and universities and related trades, and able to finish the application research, technical development, production management and administration jobs related to GIS in cities, regions, resources, environment, traffic, population, house, land, infrastructure, planning management.

The GIS laboratory possessed by this direction is affiliated to the environmental sources and Beijing municipal key laboratories, including the basic laboratory of Capital Normal University (1988), the 3S engineering application laboratory, (1999), and the joint laboratory of space information technology (Founder Digital Co., Ltd -- Capital Normal University, 2001).

02 Ecological environment and control mechanism

Tutor: Doctor Hua Luo, professor, tutor for doctoral students (recruit master and doctoral students simultaneously)

This direction uses soil-plant-air-water as the main track, and utilizes nuclide tracing, neutron activation, ultramicroscopic, 3S and other advanced technologies to study the environmental biological and geochemical process of multiple elements in the ecological system, and explore the interaction mechanism of the elements, the mutual-dependence law and control mechanism between the elements and the environment, hoping to establish the optimization model of land utilization and ecological system, and to provide scientific basis and control measures for the sustainable development of our ecological environment. Based on geoscience, this research direction and intercrosses with environmental science, agricultural science, molecular biology, high-energy physics and other subjects, and is the front of domestic and foreign scientific researches in the recent years (IGBP, SCOPE and other international research plans all list it as core content). Totally this direction has obtained more than 30 province/ministry-level scientific research projects, including five projects of the National Natural Science Fund, a key project of the National Natural Science Fund, projects from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and European Community, as well as Beijing municipal key projects.

The direction has published 7 monographic books and about 200 articles, and not a few of the articles have been included in SCI, EI, CA, CAB, Soil and fertilizer, etc.

Doctor point: botany, Department of Biology, Capital Normal University

Recruitment direction: 1. Plant nutrition 2. Plant effect of soil pollution

03 Resource exploitation and regional development

Tutor: Doctor Ma Li, professor

Doctor Shen Yuming, associate professor

Doctor Jia Shaofeng, associate researcher

Aiming at the coordinated development of population, resource, environment, economy and society, the point carries out comprehensive fundamental and applied researches in the fields of sustainable utilization of resources, environmental renovation, optimization and management ecological system, regional sustainable development, and so on.

With emphases given to the researches on reasonable utilization of water and soil resources, land utilization/land coverage change, optimized configuration of regional resources, high-efficiency utilization patterns and their environmental effects, and regional sustainable development, this doctor point discusses the interactive relation between natural and human factors that influence regional development, discovers the coupling mechanisms of natural and human processes, and looks after ways and countermeasures for optimal regulation & control of human-earth system, so as to provide scientific references for the state and regions to work out regional development strategies.

04 Fathering and construction of ecological environment

Tutor: Doctor Fu Hua, associate professor

Doctor Wang Xiaoyan, associate professor

Ecological environment is the basic condition for the living and development of human, and is also the base of economic and social development. To protect and build the ecological environment to realize sustainable development is the precondition for establishing a harmonious relationship between human and earth. This doctor point uses ecology as the theoretical basis, and utilizes remote sensing, GIS, information network and other means to research the influential factors, causes, mechanism and effects of various ecological problems in ecological systems of different areas and different dimensions, including the hazards and fathering of various pollutants in natural environment and human environment. The specific research fields include status and monitoring of air pollution, water environment and water pollution, mechanism and countermeasures of non-point source pollution, soil environment pollution and plant recovery measures, biological technology-based pollution index analysis, evaluation system and methods of ecological environment, etc.

05 Global environmental change

Tutor: Doctor Wei Mingjian, associate professor

The global environmental change direction is presided over by Prof. Li Huhou (tenure of Canada Simon Fraser University) and Doc. Wei mingjian, and principally studies global changes and their regional responses. Currently there are two closely correlated predominant research directions:

1) Global environmental change and ancient climate & environmental information extraction: mainly carries out palynological studies, especially in the palynological studies of quaternary Loess and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau tertiary red beds, and has established a complete palynological research laboratory. The laboratory is good at extracting enrichment farina from deposition carriers with relatively more clay and fewer spore and pollen, able to improve the reliability of palynological data in recovery of ancient environment. This is very important for studying the history of the Qinhai-Tibet Plateau rising up in the tertiary period and the vegetation evolution of the Loess Plateau in the quaternary period, and so is highly recognized by fellow experts. 2) Dating technology and its applications: mainly performs optical dating researches, and has established an optical dating laboratory. Optical dating technology is an age determination method developed in the middle of the 20th century, which utilizes the light release phenomenon of crystalline solid to determine age. With a determination range of 20ka---1Ma, it is thought highly of by experts and scholars in such fields as palaeoanthropology, archaeology, seismology, and so on. Especially, this technology is valued by environmental scientists because it is able to provide an age sequence with high resolution for study of global environmental changes. The laboratory has an infrared light releaser and 1 thermal light releaser. The frequency selection light release spectrometer being designed and manufactured independently is a new-generation multifunctional light release spectrum analyzer that uses frequency selection excitation and frequency division reception technologies.

The direction undertakes 1 sub-topic of the State Key Fundamental Research Development Planning Project (973), 1 project of Beijing Municipal Natural Science Fund, and 2 projects of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.

06 Land evaluation and landscape design

Tutor: Doctor Fu Hua, associate professor

Land resource is the basis for the survival and development of human society. This direction takes the land resource under different urban and rural regional conditions as the research object, to research the influential factors, evaluation system and assessment methods of land price, and discuss the evaluation schemes of different land utilization types. It is a necessary chain link for making overall plan of land utilization, land collation, cropland recovery, and for development of real estate. Based on land evaluation, this direction exercises the basic theories of landscape ecology, focuses on the usable, aesthetic and ecological functions of environmental landscape, persists on the terrain, human, and function principles of landscape design, and utilizes computer aid to research landscape design patterns under different land utilization modes and discuss the theoretical system and methods of landscape design, so as to provide decision references for cities to plan and build an optimization model of human living environment.

07 Geological fluid mechanics

Tutor: Doctor Liu Yongshun, associate professor

An important direction of modern geological effect studies is dynamic research, which employs quantitative dynamic theories to explain the evolution of geological effect. Since 1980s, the intercrossing of fluid mechanics and geoscience has gradually generated a new subject, that is, geological fluid mechanics (GFM). The research range refers to atmosphere, ocean, river, magma, petroleum, underground water, etc., and the core thought is to combine the basic concepts and methods of fluid mechanics with the researches on the physical and chemical processes of geological evolution, and organically combine field observation with indoor experiment, theoretical analysis, numerical calculation and simulation, to look into the movements of fluids during the solidification effect and deposition effect of the rocks that composes the earth, and to solve various energy and environmental problems. The birth of this subject has brought a qualitative flight to geological studies, and also opened a new thinking way for studying environmental problems. Currently, emphases are given to the fluid dynamical, petrological and resource environmental problems concerned in the eruption and evolution of volcano systems. To study in this direction, favorable basis in geoscience (especially, field practice and indoor experiment), solid mathematic basis and expertise in foreign language level are required.

08 Planning and development of ecological tourism

Tutor: Master Hong Jianming, associate professor

Ecological tourism is a kind of tourism activity under the direction of ecological principles and sustainable development thoughts, and is also a subdiscipline of tourism developed on the basis of natural tourism. Planning and development of ecological tourism makes scarce tourist resources reasonably matched with the tourist market through tourist planning, and realizes the value satisfaction of tourists, developers and local communities simultaneously under the precondition of enough protection of the ecological system in the tourism place, in a bid to obtain the unification and coordinated development of environmental, economic and social targets.

Since ecological tourism is a new subject developed in 1980's, much attention has been paid to it at home and abroad, and many theories and practices are still in exploration. The direction has published 6 articles, participated in compiling the textbooks of related colleges and universities, and performed biodiversity background survey and ecological tourism planning for Beijing Yangzhen Reed Pond and Wetland Protection Area to be established.

Environmental science

Biological environment and geochemistry Holding the main track of soil-plant-atmosphere-water, and based on the mutual combination and penetration of geography, environmental science, agricultural science, molecular biology, and high-energy physics etc, this direction utilizes nuclide tracing, neutron activation, ultramicroscopic, 3S and other advanced technologies to study the environmental biological and geochemistry process of multiple elements in the ecological system, and explore the interaction mechanism of the elements, the mutual-dependence law and control mechanism between the elements and the environment, so as to establish an optimized model of land utilization and ecological system, and to provide scientific references and control measures for the sustainable development of our ecological environment.

Control and management of water environmental pollution This direction mainly studies the recovery and reconstruction of the important wetland natural protection areas in Beijing as well as the process and mechanism of non-point source pollution in the dimension of drainage area. Long-term monitoring and remote sensing technologies for small drainage areas, geographical information system (GIS) technology as well as landscape ecological, geographical, environmental chemical, and environmental economical methods are used to establish and evaluate the control measures for drainage area pollution, and discuss the management system for control of drainage area pollution.

Human geography

Taking human-earth relation areal system as the research object, this specialty combines natural science, economic science, ecology, and environmental science with social science, focuses on the sustainable development theory, and utilizes comprehensive integrated methods represented by 3S (GIS, RS, GPS) technologies to study the great problems concerning population, resources, environment and development occurred in the economic construction of our country. It mainly recruits graduate students in the following directions: regional development, regional planning, regional sustainable development, land utilization and land coverage, agriculture and rural development, tourism planning, tourism and management, etc.

Currently the human geography specialty has 10 teachers, among which are 2 professors and 7 associate professors, and 5 of them possess a doctor's degree. In the teacher team, middle-aged and young teachers have become the backbone of teaching and scientific research, and meanwhile the knowledge structure of the team is also advancing toward the direction of diversification. Recently, the specialty mainly makes researches on theories of human geography, regional sustainable development, regional development, sustainable agriculture, and tourism planning, and has presided over or participated in not a few state or ministry-level projects as well as regional planning, tourism planning and regional sustainable development projects, showing favorable economic benefits and social benefits, and having made contributions to the development of local economy. The development target is, in the future five years or a longer time, the College of Environmental Sources and Tourism of Capital Normal University will take the opportunities, bring the advantages into play, and persist on the combination of fundamental and applied researches as well as the integration of theory and practice, in a bid to become a top-ranking and famous human geography teaching and scientific research base, which is provided with the advantages of university, combines art, science and engineering, and integrated teaching, scientific research and practice with services.

Recruitment directions:

1. Regional development mechanism

2. Tourism planning and management

Cartography and geographical information system

3D spatial information acquisition and expression

Corresponding to the vast demand of the construction of spatial information infrastructure and "digital city" for acquisition, renewal and application of the three-dimensional data of geographical space, this direction carries out researches on three-dimensional geographical information acquisition and processing technology, true three-dimensional modeling and expression technology, as well as application of three-dimensional spatial information.

Remote sensing and GIS application

This direction employs the newest technologies of remote sensing and GIS to carry out applied researches in fields of resource and environment, including land resource dynamic monitoring, comprehensive resource remote sensing investigation, GIS-based drainage area water resource numerical simulation model, wetland ecological remote sensing monitoring, development of resource management system, development of environmental monitoring and evaluation system, etc.