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Acknowledgements
This book has been some years in the making. The idea originated back in 2005
with the publication of a preceding volume – Fish for Life – that launched the
concept of governability in its fi nal chapters. The members of the Fisheries
Governance Network (FISHGOVNET), which had been established through project funding by the European Commission, agreed that this topic was critical for
the development of the interactive governance approach and decided to take it
forward, fi rst through a special issue for the Journal of Transdisciplinary
Environmental Studies . The Stockholm resilience conference of 2008 then
provided the editors with an occasion to decide on the outline and schedule of this
volume. Other meetings – some with a fuller group of authors, others with the
editors alone – took place at regular intervals in Ottawa, Gothenburg, St John’s,
Bangkok and Amsterdam.
The present volume could not have come about without the encouragement
and support of a number of people and organizations. The editors would fi rst of
all like to mention the backing of the University of Amsterdam, Memorial
University, and the University of Tromsø, that provided them with the opportunity
to pursue their interests in this fi eld. Ratana Chuenpagdee also acknowledges
support from Canada Research Chairs program and Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada. Svein Jentoft acknowledges the support
from the POVFISH project and the POVPEACE program of the Norwegian
Research Council.
We would like to thank Miriam Ros for coordinating the review process on
behalf of the editors of the MARE Publication Series. The two reviewers provided
important, and in some respects, contradictory views on how to improve the manuscript – we have taken their suggestions to heart and integrated them in our own
way. We are more than grateful to Philip van der Krogt, who did a wonderful job
language-editing the manuscript. Our thanks are also due to Fritz Schmul and
others at Springer Publishers, who have guided us skillfully through the publishing
process. Russ McGoodwin was willing to go through the manuscript and write a
scintillating foreword, for which we extend our gratitude.
Acknowledgements
This book has been some years in the making. The idea originated back in 2005
with the publication of a preceding volume – Fish for Life – that launched the
concept of governability in its fi nal chapters. The members of the Fisheries
Governance Network (FISHGOVNET), which had been established through project funding by the European Commission, agreed that this topic was critical for
the development of the interactive governance approach and decided to take it
forward, fi rst through a special issue for the Journal of Transdisciplinary
Environmental Studies . The Stockholm resilience conference of 2008 then
provided the editors with an occasion to decide on the outline and schedule of this
volume. Other meetings – some with a fuller group of authors, others with the
editors alone – took place at regular intervals in Ottawa, Gothenburg, St John’s,
Bangkok and Amsterdam.
The present volume could not have come about without the encouragement
and support of a number of people and organizations. The editors would fi rst of
all like to mention the backing of the University of Amsterdam, Memorial
University, and the University of Tromsø, that provided them with the opportunity
to pursue their interests in this fi eld. Ratana Chuenpagdee also acknowledges
support from Canada Research Chairs program and Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada. Svein Jentoft acknowledges the support
from the POVFISH project and the POVPEACE program of the Norwegian
Research Council.
We would like to thank Miriam Ros for coordinating the review process on
behalf of the editors of the MARE Publication Series. The two reviewers provided
important, and in some respects, contradictory views on how to improve the manuscript – we have taken their suggestions to heart and integrated them in our own
way. We are more than grateful to Philip van der Krogt, who did a wonderful job
language-editing the manuscript. Our thanks are also due to Fritz Schmul and
others at Springer Publishers, who have guided us skillfully through the publishing
process. Russ McGoodwin was willing to go through the manuscript and write a
scintillating foreword, for which we extend our gratitude.