This book is one of the results of a project subsidized by the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences on smart mixes in relation to trans-boundary environmental harm. The project was sponsored within the framework of the Academy project ‘Beyond borders’ (Over grenzen). It consisted of a collaboration between the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam and the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, with the collaboration from the Law Faculty of Maastricht University as well. The project work was largely executed by two postdocs financed by the Academy, Dr Markos Karavias and Dr Liu Jing and supported by an expert team consisting of: Professor Michael Faure (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Maastricht University); Professor André Nollkaemper (University of Amsterdam); Professor Peter Mascini (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Professor Judith van Erp (Utrecht University); Professor Marjan Peeters (Maastricht University); Professor Niels Philipsen (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Maastricht University).
The project team benefited from the expertise of an advisory committee consisting of: Jan van den Broek (VNO-NCW); Professor Joyeeta Gupta (University of Amsterdam); Dr Veerle Heyvaert (London School of Economics); Gerald Kok (Shell); Professor Catherine Redgwell (University of Oxford); Dr Peter Sand (University of Munich); Professor Jaap Spier (Supreme Court of the Netherlands); Jasper Teulings (Greenpeace International); Ludo Veuchelen (Erasmus University Rotterdam).
Within the framework of this project research was carried out on the governance of Common-Pool resources, more particularly forests and fishery resources. Two workshops were organized: one on smart mixes in relation to forest and climate governance on 4–5 February 2015 and one workshop on smart mixes in relation to fishery and oil pollution governance on 7–8 October 2015 both at the Facility of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam.
As authors of this book which largely builds on the mentioned research project we are grateful to our colleagues, members of the expert team, to the members of the advisory committee, to the participants in the two mentioned workshops and especially to the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences for their invaluable input and support without which this book could not have been published.
Jing Liu, Michael Faure, Peter Mascini
Wuhan/Maastricht/Rotterdam, March 2017