Prof. Dr. FRANK MAES Department of Public International Law & Maritime Institute Ghent University, Belgium Universiteitstraat 6, B Ghent, Tel.: + 32 9 264 68 95, Fax: + 32 9 264 69 89 E-mail: Frank. Maes@UGent. be The contributions to this book are partly the output of a research project conducted between 1998 and 2002 in Belgium and a conference held at the Ghent University, Belgium, in June 2003 on the topic Marine Resource Damage Assessment and Compensation for Environmental Damage (MARE-DASM). The Belgian Federal Science Policy sponsored both the research and the conference. MARE-DASM...