Acknowledgements
This book project was generously funded by the German Science Foundation’s Priority Programme (SPP-1889) ‘Regional Sea Level Change and Society.’ We would like to offer our deepest gratitude to the participants at the EMERSA project’s Mid-term Symposium co-hosted in Jakarta in September 2018 by the Center for Strategic and Global Studies – Sekolah Kajian Stratejik dan Global at Universitas Indonesia (CSGS-SKSG, UI), the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), and the artec Sustainability Center at the University of Bremen. To Irene Sondang, Arif Ganda Purnama, Ahmad Zubair, Nala Hutasoit, Hendricus A. Simarmata and others at the SKSG for their organisational assistance of the event that created the impetus for this volume, alongside our Philippines-based partners Emma Porio, Cora Bolong, and Elizabeth Urgel. Our heartfelt thanks to our co-readers and reviewers particularly Friederike Gesing, Aisa Manlosa, Johannes Herbeck, Michael D. Pante, Ranjana Raghunathan, together with Michael Flitner, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Beatrice Dippel and the two (formerly anonymous) Brill reviewers Mareike Pampus and Lukas Ley for their astute feedback on the chapters. To Brill’s ‘Social Sciences in Asia’ editorial staff, particularly Chunyan Shu, Iulia Ivana, and Martin Banigan for their dedicated and timely input during the entire process. To Sanka Sammana Perera for his photographic editing assistance with the cover image. To Priya Agarwal for her creative and rigorous copyediting of this volume. To our editorial assistants Timo Ottolin, Lucas Barning and Jessa Iglesia for their support on previous drafts of the manuscript over the years. To Silvia Pedicini for her careful co-ordination and assistance in layout and preparation of the manuscript during the last stages of its production. Meanwhile, we are deeply indebted to the many coastal communities and individuals who generously shared their time and stories with us. It is to them that we dedicate this work.