Rongxing Guo is Professor (Homepage: www.researchgate.net/profile/Rongxing_Guo; ORCID: 0000-0002-5368-793X), Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China. He has led research projects for the OECD and the World Bank, and undertaken consultation for the Chinese government. An expert who is among the very few scholars to publish in six major disciplines of economics, geography, political science, management science, archaeology, and anthropology, Rongxing Guo has more than 30 years of experience teaching and researching in China, as well as in Australia, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Germany and the US. During the past 20 years or so, he has published more than 30 monographs and many valuable articles. His most recent research works are “Explaining the Human and Cultural Puzzles: A New Development Theory” – whose full text is available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162519302513 -- and “Managing the Unruly Waters: An Imperative for Safety and Resilience along the Yellow River” (draft).

• 1. Border, Boundary and Frontier: Concepts2. Globalization, Natural Resources and Borders3. Studying Borders: An Interdisciplinary Approach4. Practical Methods for Calculating or Estimating Border Effects5. Cross-Border Resource Management: Institutions6. Cross-Border Resource Management: Methods7. Exploiting Natural Resources in Cross-Border Areas8. Air and Space Resources and Cross-Border Cooperation9. Cross-Border Ecological Preservation and Biosafety10. Cross-Border Environmental Pollution and Protection11. Climate Change and Cross-Border Resource Management12. Managing Natural Disasters in Cross-Border Areas13. Territorial Discontinuity and Cross-Border Cooperation14. Territorial Disputes and Cross-Border Management15. Cross-Border Conflict Prevention and Management