Cross-Border Resource Management, Guo, Rongxing

Cross-Border Resource Management, Third Edition covers theoretical and analytical issues relating to cross-border resource management. This book explores holistically issues when 2 entities share a border, such as sovereign countries, dependent states and others, and each seeks to maximize their political and economic interests regardless of the total impacts on the environment.

This new edition has been completely reorganized and revised to reflect the current issues in the field. Cross-Border Resource Management now has new cases from North America and Europe, and even explores into issues of air and space. This book is a single resource for professionals and students, exploring the many facets of managing and utilizing natural resources when they extend across human defined borders.

• Thoroughly updated with new cases and new coverage on NGO impact on border management, borderless aspects of the world like internet and its impacts on resourcing, bio-invasion and border control, cross-border resource management for aboriginal populations
• New content also on geopolitical issues, environmental impacts of armed conflicts, dividing and managing shared natural resources, exploitation, competition and depletion of border resources, issues with underground resources, exploitation of airspace resources (i.e. rainfall), exploitation of geospace resources as well as dispute resolution
• Every chapter in the book has been thoroughly revised and reorganized