The relationship between man and the natural environment is formally incorporated in the course of study both for social studies in primary schools and for geograhy in junior and senior high schools. But as far as it is considered from the contents of current textbooks and the teaching practices in classrooms, it can hardly be said that this item is properly treated as an important subject of study both in primary and secondary level of education. The present writer considers that, in order to get to the deeper understanding of this relationship, and to place it in a variety of social problems, it is essential to take it as closely related to the interactions between man's cultural life, environmental problems, natural disasters and natural resources. When the natural environment is thus considered as working in this fourfold relationships, it might be easier to locate it not only as fundamental phenomenon in the study of geography, but as a core of regional geography, on global, national and local basis, and it will greatly interest the students or the pupils and help to extend their mental activities both in scope and in depth.
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