Human-Earth System Dynamics

Rongxing Guo is 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. He has had extensive publishing experiences with many world-leading publishing houses, which include John Wiley and Sons (USA), Elsevier (including its editorial offices in Amsterdam and Oxford/UK and its imprint “Academic Press” in San Diego/USA); Routledge (including its editorial offices in London and Singapore), Springer (including its editorial offices in New York, Heidelberg/Germany, Singapore, and Beijing), Palgrave-Macmillan (including its editorial offices in London and New York). He has published more than 30 monographs and edited books. In 2017, he was awarded by the Beijing Municipal Government under the “High Talent Support Program.”

• Introduction.- Win-Stay, Lose-Shift: A Survival Rule.- Human Thermodynamics and Culture (I).- Human Thermodynamics and Culture (II).- Environment Matters, But Not the Way You Think.- Civilization as Responses to Cyclical Challenges.- Let the Floods Come More Violent.- Glossary.