Acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge with gratitude the financial support of the French National Research Agency (anr–france) for the project “Défis Contemporains des Détroits” (DéCoDé).
This volume is the outcome of research undertaken at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale within the tves (Territoires, Villes, Environnement & Société) and larj (Laboratoire de Recherche Juridique) research teams.
We would like to thank Colm Mohan for his careful proofreading and Philippe Chagnon for his valuable assistance.
We further acknowledge the support of the European Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (meshs–Lille, France, https://www.meshs.fr) and the Campus de la Mer (https://sfr-campusdelamer.univ-littoral.fr/home/).