Dr. Canfei He is a Professor and the Dean of the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University (PKU). He earned his Ph.D. degree in geography from Arizona State University in 2001. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis during 2001–2003. Dr. He is the Deputy Director of the Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. He is the Associate Editor of three Chinese journals including World Regional Geography, Geographical Research, and Tropical Geography and is on the editorial board of several international journals, including Economic Geography, Applied Geography, the Geographical Journal, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Growth and Change, Area Development and Policy, and Asia Geographer. He was a section Editor in charge of Industrial Geography for the Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography. Dr. He’s research interests include industrial geography, environmental economic geography and evolutionary economic geography, and urban and regional development in China. Dr. He has widely published in international journals and books. He is also the lead Guest Editor of several special issues for Growth and Change (2016), Geojournal (2016), and Small Business Economics (2018). He was granted the Outstanding Young Scientist Award by National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2014 and was entitled the Cheung Kong professorship in 2016 by the Ministry of Education in China. He was listed by Elsevier as one of the most cited researchers in mainland China (social sciences), for six consecutive years (2015–2020).
Dr. Xiyan Mao currently serves as a Research Fellow in the School of Geography and Ocean Science at Nanjing University. He has a Ph.D. in Human Geography and double Bachelor’s Degrees in Geography and Economics from Peking University. Supported by the China Scholarship Council, he had a one-year visiting study at the University of Cambridge.He used to work as a Research Assistant at Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. He works in the field of environmental economic geography, investigating the human–environment interactions in the dual processes of globalization and localization. His research covers a wide range of aspects, including the environmental effect of trade expansion, industrial evolution, and landscape utilization. Cases in his research reach across multiple spatial scales (from local to global) and diverse typical areas (from less developed and eco-fragile areas to developed but eco-sensitive areas). Research findings have been widely published in international journals.
