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We live by a global ocean that washes on many shores, supports the activities of many different peoples, and exacts our respect in many forms. At the height of her career Elisabeth Mann Borgese advocated that this ocean is our common heritage. She worked to promote a sharing of skills and knowledge to enable people of all countries to benefit more equally from its bounty. The knowledge and facilities have spread, but so too has a recognition of the critical state of ocean conditions and of unmet challenges to ocean and coastal governance. This book is about the evolution of our understanding of both the conditions and the challenges.Ocean governance and training are deeply rooted in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (unclos),1 the 1982 international agreement often described as the "constitution of the oceans." As an active participant in the process of negotiation and ratification of the Convention, Professor Mann Borgese was determined that it incorporated the principle of equity among nations. More than that, she insisted that it must provide for training to enable small, developing and poor countries to implement the agreement for their own benefit. As she wrote later about the creation of exclusive economic zones (eezs) under the Convention: "The acquisition of vast areas of ocean space and resources by itself meant nothing if coastal states lacked the resources needed for rational management."2The foundation of the International Ocean Institute (ioi) in 1972 was a response to this need. During her tenure in the 1980s at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, Professor Mann Borgese led the development and implementation of the IOI-Canada Training Program. Now well into its fourth