Cross-Border Resource Management
- 4th Edition - July 20, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Rongxing Guo
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 8 7 0 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 5 5 8 - 8
Cross-Border Resource Management, Fourth Edition addresses theoretical and analytical issues relating to cross-border resource management, particularly in a changing world. Th… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCross-Border Resource Management, Fourth Edition addresses theoretical and analytical issues relating to cross-border resource management, particularly in a changing world. The book holistically explores issues where two entities share a border, such as sovereign countries, dependent states and others, where each seeks to maximize their political and economic interests regardless of impacts on the environment. This new edition has been completely revised to reflect current issues, with new cases and videos in every chapter and expanded coverage of natural disasters, climate change and modeling.
Serving as a single resource to explore the many facets of managing and utilizing natural resources when they extend across defined borders, this new edition provides environmental managers and researchers in environmental management and policy with practical solutions for cross-border cooperation in the exploitation and utilization of natural and environmental resources.
- Includes case studies and videos in every chapter, along with expanded coverage on key topics in cross-border management, including natural disasters, climate change and modeling
- Addresses both theoretical and practical issues in resource management across borders
- Clarifies how natural and human systems interact in cross-border areas under conditions of uncertain, imperfect information, and in some circumstances, irreversibility
- Provides various solutions for efficient cross-border management
Researchers and practitioners in environmental management and natural resource management
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Preface
- New to this edition
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1. Border, boundary and frontier: concepts
- Abstract
- 1.1 Some basic concepts
- 1.2 A world of borders
- 1.3 Borders: political hierarchy
- 1.4 Borders: dimension and structure
- 1.5 Borders as a special resource
- 1.6 Case 1. An enquiry into the spatial inefficiency of nations
- 1.7 Videos
- References
- 2. Globalisation, natural resources and borders
- Abstract
- 2.1 Globalisation and natural resources
- 2.2 A closer look at earth
- 2.3 Topographies and political boundaries
- 2.4 Natural resources and boundaries
- 2.5 Case 2. The US–China trade war and rare earths
- 2.6 Videos
- References
- 3. Cross-border studies as an interdisciplinary science
- Abstract
- 3.1 Good boundary, bad boundary
- 3.2 Viewing the border from both sides
- 3.3 Cross-border complexity and divergence
- 3.4 Conducting cross-border research
- 3.5 Overcoming obstacles, seizing opportunities
- 3.6 Case 3. What does the earliest border marker really say?
- 3.7 Videos
- References
- 4. Methods for analysing and estimating border effects
- Abstract
- 4.1 Descriptive or narrative analysis
- 4.2 Qualitative and comparative analyses
- 4.3 Mathematical and quantitative analyses
- 4.4 Statistical estimation methods
- 4.5 Marginal limit-comparison method
- 4.6 Approximation and computational methods
- 4.7 Case 4. An application of the marginal limit-comparison method
- 4.8 Videos
- References
- 5. Cross-border resource management: institutions
- Abstract
- 5.1 Doctrines and obligations
- 5.2 Cross-border management: categories
- 5.3 Cross-border management: mechanisms and regimes
- 5.4 Cross-border institutional transformation
- 5.5 Case 5. Charting the East China Sea: an American view
- 5.6 Videos
- References
- 6. Cross-border resource management: methods
- Abstract
- 6.1 Fair division: continuous methods
- 6.2 Fair division: discrete methods
- 6.3 Noncooperative game theory
- 6.4 Cooperative game theory
- 6.5 Case 6. South China Sea disputes as games
- 6.6 Videos
- References
- 7. Exploiting natural resources in cross-border areas
- Abstract
- 7.1 Solid resources, fixed boundaries
- 7.2 Fixed boundaries, fluid resources
- 7.3 Solid resources, uncertain boundaries
- 7.4 Uncertain boundaries, fluid resources
- 7.5 Patterns of cross-border resource exploitation
- 7.6 Case 7. An optimal model of cross-border oil exploitation
- 7.7 Videos
- References
- 8. Air and space resources and cross-border cooperation
- Abstract
- 8.1 Drawing borders beyond earth
- 8.2 Atmosphere weather and climate
- 8.3 Cloud seeding and downwind areas
- 8.4 Space competition and cooperation
- 8.5 Case 8. Mining the moon for clean energy
- 8.6 Videos
- References
- 9. Cross-border ecological preservation and biosafety
- Abstract
- 9.1 Stop humans’ greedy behaviours
- 9.2 Borders, fences and ecology
- 9.3 Avoiding lose–lose situations
- 9.4 Creating borders for protected areas
- 9.5 Bioinvasions, bioterrorism and borders
- 9.6 Case 9. Stop Asian carp in the United States: an Asian view
- 9.7 Videos
- References
- 10. Cross-border environmental pollution and human health
- Abstract
- 10.1 Earth and the environment (I)
- 10.2 Cross-border environmental pollution
- 10.3 Cross-border separation and the environment
- 10.4 Environmental health as an interdisciplinary science
- 10.5 Explaining the double cross-border puzzle
- 10.6 Case 10. Estimating the effects of border closing on the COVID-19 pandemic
- 10.7 Videos
- References
- 11. Climate change and cross-border resource management
- Abstract
- 11.1 Earth and the environment (II)
- 11.2 Global warming and its impacts
- 11.3 Sea-level rise and coastal boundaries
- 11.4 Challenges to cross-border management
- 11.5 Case 11. A new commercial route to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- 11.6 Videos
- References
- 12. Cross-border natural disaster and crisis management
- Abstract
- 12.1 Natural disasters and civilisation
- 12.2 Categorising natural disasters
- 12.3 Managing cross-border natural disasters
- 12.4 Cross-border crisis preparedness
- 12.5 Case 12. What is the best solution for the floods-hit Maldives?
- 12.6 Videos
- References
- 13. Territorial discontinuity and cross-border resource cooperation
- Abstract
- 13.1 Why discontinuous territories?
- 13.2 Enclaves and counterenclaves
- 13.3 Cross-border territorial reallocation
- 13.4 Cross-border territorial competition and cooperation
- 13.5 Connecting discontinuous territories
- 13.6 Case 13. The pan-Eurasian railway and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: opportunities and challenges
- 13.7 Videos
- References
- 14. Territorial disputes and cross-border resource management
- Abstract
- 14.1 What are bad boundaries?
- 14.2 Factors activating territorial disputes (I)
- 14.3 Factors activating territorial disputes (II)
- 14.4 Territorial disputes and resource management
- 14.5 Case 14. Territorial claims in the Arctic
- 14.6 Videos
- References
- 15. Cross-border conflict prevention and resource management
- Abstract
- 15.1 Preventing cross-border conflicts
- 15.2 Options for areas to avoid conflicts
- 15.3 Wartime cross-border resource management
- 15.4 The art of avoiding war
- 15.5 Case 15. A brief history of the Korean DMZ
- 15.6 Videos
- References
- Appendix 1. Data on the international land boundaries of the world
- Appendix 2. Data on claims for maritime boundaries by country
- Appendix 3. A list of internationally adjacent protected areas
- Appendix A4. List of countries with boundary and territorial disputes
- Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: July 20, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 568
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323918701
- eBook ISBN: 9780323915588
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Rongxing Guo
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).
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