Border and Environment

Reece Jones is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a professor in and the chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of award-winning books, Border Walls: security and the war on teerror in the United States, India, and Israel (2012), Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (2016), and White Borders: the history of race and immigration in the United States from Chinese exlusion to the border wall (2021). He has also published dozens of research articles and newspaper columns on the roles that borders and immigration restrictions play. He is the editor in chief of the Journal Geopolitics and lives in Honolulu with his family. Wang, Hongxia is a research professor and the director of Department of Population and Resources and Environmental Economics at the Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Fudan University. She is a member of China Population Association, a council member of Shanghai Economics Association, a chief professor of Metropolis spatial Development Strategy & Policy Research Innovation Think Tank, and a consultant for Shanghai municipal government, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Hebei, Yunan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet. She has published 5 monographs and more than 30 academic papers in CSSCI journals such as “China Population Science”, “Social Science”, and “Shanghai Economic Research.” She has also accomplished more than 10 projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation, National Social Science Foundation, Shanghai Social Science Foundation, and Shanghai Decision-making Consulting Projects Fund. Her research interest includes urban and regional development, industrial economy, energy economics, and environmental issues. Sergey Lukonin is the head of Sector of Economy and Politics of China, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Science. He received his Ph.D. in world economy from Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. He was an associate professor at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and a guest professor in School of Northeast Asia Studies at Shandong Univeristy. He serves as a member of expert council in Committe on Education and Science at the Russian Federal Assembly (State Duma). His area of research focuses upon security challenges and multilateral cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, and Russian regional priorities and policy. He is the author, co-author and editor of over 230 academic papers published in Russia, the US, China Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, India and European countries. Sebastian Maslow is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Sendai Shirayuri Women’s College. He was an assistant professor in Center for East Asian Studies at Heidelberg University, an assistant professor in Graduate School of Law at Tohoku University, and a research fellow in Institute of Social Science at University of Tokyo. He is the co-editor of Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State (SUNY Press, 2021), and Risk State: Japan’s Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty (Routledge, 2015). He also serves as associate editor and book review editor of Social Science Japan Journal. Park, Kyoo-Hong, is a professor in School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urban Design and Studies at Chung-Ang University. He received his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Northwestern University. He was the president of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater. He also served as the dean of the Graduate School of Construction Engineering at Chung-Ang University. Kang, Taek Goo, is a senior research fellow in Korea Environment Institute and the director of the Center for Environmental Information of North Korea at Korea Environment Institute. He received his Ph.D. in international relations from Tsinghua