EVENT:
MARIPOLDATA Reading Group – Ethics and the BBNJ Agreement
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
17:00-18:30 (CEST)
The MARIPOLDATA Team is happy to announce that we will welcome Dr. Carl Safina, ecologist and founding president of the Safina Center, to discuss our ethical responsibility towards the ocean.
More information here.
Alice Vadrot presenting at The Ocean Decade Virtual Series: Co-designing the science we need for the Ocean Decade
Thursday, September 24, 2020
16:00-18:00 (CEST)
This session is convened by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in partnership with the International Science Council, as part of the Ocean Decade Virtual Series.
More information here.
Studying the role of science during/in treaty negotiations: The marine biodiversity case
Virtual presentation by Alice Vadrot at Science Po Paris
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
17:00-19:00 (CEST)
This seminar session is co-organised by the research group “Environment and International Relations” and the Research Group on Multilateral Action (GRAM) of the Centre of international research (CERI).
More information here.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
New publication by Alice Vadrot in Environmental Science & Policy
Buidling authority and relevance in the early history of IPBES
This paper reviews the early history of IPBES and focuses on epistemic choices that occurred early on in its establishment and assessment work.
Read the paper here.
New forum piece by Alice Vadrot in Critical Policy Studies
Multilaterism as a `site´ of struggle over environmental knowledge: the North-South divide
This forum piece discusses why multilateral spaces are key ‘sites’ for studying struggles over environmental knowledge and how Collaborative Event Ethnography (CEE) can open up new avenues for Critical Policy Studies.
Read the forum piece here.
IN THE MEDIA:
The best of all worlds
FWF video portrait
Artist, diplomat or researcher? Alice Vadrot considers her chosen career path – research – to be the “best of all worlds”. At the University of Vienna, the research interests of this political scientist and former FWF Schrödinger fellow include worldwide policy considerations on the protection of biodiversity, as well as the difficult question: who owns the sea?
Video here…
Meeresschutz politisch umsetzen – Ö1 Punkt eins (in German)
Wie ernst ist es uns mit dem Schutz mariner Ökosysteme?
Gäste: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Herndl, Professor für Meeresbiologie & Ass.-Prof. Dr. Alice Vadrot, Projektleiterin MARIPOLDATA, Universität Wien.
Moderation: Xaver Forthuber.
Vor Mauritius havarierte kürzlich der Ölfrachter “Wakashio” an einem ohnehin bedrohten Riff. Von den Galapagos-Inseln meldeten ForscherInnen vor kurzem die Entdeckung Dutzender neuer Tierarten;
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