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"Acknowledgements" [2018] ELECD 1592; in Cogolati, Samuel; Wouters, Jan (eds), "The Commons and a New Global Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) xix

Book Title: The Commons and a New Global Governance

Editor(s): Cogolati, Samuel; Wouters, Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788118507

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Acknowledgements The present book is the outcome of the efforts of 19 contributors, and the editors would like to express their warmest gratitude to all of them. It is only because of their commitment and trust that this interdisciplinary book has been possible. In particular, the editors would like to thank Dr Martin Deleixhe, who, as a senior member of the Centre of Excellence Research Programme `Global Governance and Democratic Government' of our Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, paved the way for the conceptual and normative foundations of this volume. Together with the other junior and senior researchers involved in our research programme, Martin initiated this book project in 2016. Among the first authors who contributed to this project from 2016, we would like to thank Professor Dr Pierre Dardot, Professor Dr Maarja Beerkens, Christiaan Boonen, Nicolás Brando, Professor Dr Thomas Eimer, Maja Groff, Rutger Hagen, and Professor Dr Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen. In 2017, as part of the same Centre of Excellence Research Programme, Global Governance Studies organized a high-level Spring Lecture Series `Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Commons and Global Public Goods' with distinguished guest speakers who all shared their perspectives on the commons as a new model of global governance. This lecture series drew together leading academic voices on the commons, among whom were Professor Dr Jutta Brunnée, Professor Dr Ugo Mattei, and Dr Pierre Sauvêtre, who each contributed a chapter to this volume afterwards. We also had the honour of welcoming Michel Bauwens ...