Chair Igor N. Vladimirov, Director, V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SBRAS, Irkutsk, Russia Deputy Chair Andrei A. Sorokovoi, Deputy Director, V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia Co-Chairs Dong Soucheng, Leading Professor, Leading Scientist, in charge of the state key project of multi-disciplinary Scientific Expedition of the Russia?Mongolia?China international economic corridor, Executive Chairman and Secretary General of the International Scientists Union of the Belt and Road Initiative, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research CAS, Beijing, China He Xingyuan, Professor, Director, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology CAS, Changchun, China Battogtokh D., Director, Institute of Geography and Geoecology, ASM, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Kirill S. Ganzey, Acting Director, Pacific Institute of Geography FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia Maria V. Kryukova, Acting Director, Institute of Water and Environmental Problems, FEB RAS, Khabarovsk, Russia Endon Zh. Garmaev, Corr. Member of RAS, Director, Baikal Institute of Nature Management SB RAS, Ulan-Ude, Russia Members of the Programm Committee Viktor M. Plyusnin, Scientific Director, V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia Wang Tao, Professor, Director, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute CAS, Lanzhou, China Zhang Pingyu, Professor, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology CAS, Changchun, China Dorzhgotov D., Academician of ASM, Institute of Geography and Geoecology ASM, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Peter Ya. Baklanov, Academician of RAS, Scientific Director, Pacific Institute of Geography, FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia Boris A. Voronov, Corr. of RAS, Scientific Director, Institute of Water and Environmental Problems, FEB RAS, Khabarovsk, Russia Arnold K. Tulokhonov, Academician of RAS, Scientific Director, Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the SB RAS, Ulan-Ude, Russia Andrei A. Sorokovoi, Deputy Director, V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, Irkutsk, RussiaTHE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair Igor N. Vladimirov, Director, V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SBRAS, Irkutsk, Russia Secretary Anastasiya V. Myadzelets Organizing Committee Members Irina Yu. AmosovaIrina O. AndreevaIvan V. BalyazinDashi A. BatuevIrina N. BilichenkoOlga V. ValeevaJulia V. VanteevaOksana V. VasilenkoIgor A. DetsNatalia V. EmelyanovaInna N. ZlydnevaNatalya V. KichiginaDmitry V. KobylkinVasily N. NogovitsynOksana I. RomanovaAnton V. SilaevMaria V. TsygankovaAleksey I. Shekhovtsov