The Politics of Marine Biodiversity Data
Global and National Policies and Practices of Monitoring the Oceans
An ERC Project
MARIPOLDATA is a research project funded by the European Research Council from November 2018 to June 2024. The MARIPOLDATA research team develops and applies a new interdisciplinary and multi-scale approach to study new forms of power at the intersection between science, policy and politics.
Since 2018, the MARIPOLDATA research team has followed the BBNJ negotiations and provided extensive insights of the diplomatic practices, science-policy interactions and conflicts shaping the development of a new high seas biodiversity treaty (Tessnow-von Wysocki & Vadrot, 2020; Vadrot, 2020; Vadrot et al. 2022). In parallel, we studied the emerging scientific field of marine biodiversity […]
Member States to the United Nations are now meeting in Montreal, Canada to adopt the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)[1]. An Open-ended Working Group was tasked to prepare the draft text prior to the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP). As outstanding issues remained unresolved[2], time for discussions was extended further. The MARIPOLDATA team closely […]
Happy to announce 4 doctoral positions are available in @AliceVadrot‘s new ERC Research Project @TwinPolitics!
Spread the word and apply – We are looking forward to meet our new team
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Award of Excellence
Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki has been awarded the Austrian Award of Excellence by the Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research. This award is an annual prize for outstanding dissertations at universities as a sign of support for young academics. The award ceremony will take place on the 5th of December in Vienna.
Wozu das Ganze?
Politologin Alice Vadrot über den Sinn internationaler Umweltpolitik, den Einfluss von Lobyyisten und Megaverhandlungen am Limit im Falter, 22.11.2023 Read more…
Wem gehört der Ozean?
Interview with Alice Vadrot and Paul Dunshirn in Ö1 Journal Dimensionen, 25.07.2023
Das Klima zwischen Politik und Wissenschaft Audimax Podcast with Alice Vadrot and Nils Güttler in Rudolphina Magazin, 02.06.2023 Listen here
Vadrot, Alice B.M. and Wanneau, Krystel (2024). The social science side of marine biodiversity monitoring. ICES Journal of Marine Science.
Langlet, Arne and Vadrot, Alice B.M. (2024). Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex. Global Environmental Politics, 1–24.
Langlet, Arne and Vadrot, Alice B.M. (2023). Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making. Review of International Studies, 1-21.
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University of Vienna
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Email: maripoldata.erc@univie.ac.at
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 804599 – MARIPOLDATA – ERC-2018-STG)