Robert Brears is the author of several books focused on water security and the green economy and EiC for two Palgrave MRWs. He is also a Palgrave Series Editor (Climate Resilient Societies). He is a Director on the International Board of the Indo Global Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture, and founder of Mitidaption & Mark and Focus. Previously he was a Visiting Scholar (non-resident) at the Center for Conflict Studies at MIIS, Monterey, United States. He is a contributing author for the World Bank's Water Blog, United Nations Industrial Development Organization's Making It Magazine, Green Growth Knowledge Platform’s Insight Blog, Johns Hopkins University’s Water Magazine, China Water Risk, Water Online and RepRisk. Robert has published widely on water security, water resources management, and related issues, and has conducted field research around the world, including Antarctica. Dr Jade Lindley is an Associate Professor at The University of Western Australia (UWA) Law School and is a Member of the UWA Oceans Institute. She is an expert in transnational organized crime and its nexus with international law. Jade teaches and has published extensively in this space, particularly as it relates to maritime and environmental crimes including illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, often linked to small island developing states.