Elizabeth Economy is C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her most recent book, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Cornell University Press, 2004), won the 2005 International Convention on Asia Scholars award...

David Zweig is a member of the University of Southern California's U.S.-China Institute’s Board of Scholars. Dr. Zweig is Associate Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he also directs the Center on China’s...

Richard Louis Edmonds is Visiting Professor in the Geographical Studies Program and Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. His interests focus around historical geography and environmental studies. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996-2002. Dr. Edmonds...