ANNOUNCEMENTS:
New publication by Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki and Alice Vadrot in Frontiers in Marine Science
The Voice of Science on Marine Biodiversity Negotiations: A Systematic Literature Review
Over one hundred governments are currently negotiating a new legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). The new agreement is to address four broad themes: marine genetic resources (MGRs); area-based management tools (ABMTs), including marine protected areas (MPAs); environmental impact assessments (EIAs); and capacity building and the transfer of marine technology (CB&TT). This systematic review examines the main priority topics and recommendations in a sample of 140 multidisciplinary, geographically diverse publications.
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New publication by Petro Tolochko and Alice Vadrot in Marine Policy
The usual suspects? Distribution of collaboration capital in marine biodiversity research
This article investigates the geographical structure of international scientific cooperation in marine biodiversity research based on the analysis of bibliometric English language data from international scientific journals from 1990 until 2018 and analyses international cooperation patterns both within and across regions.
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EVENT:
The Territories of Ocean Governance
Guest: Prof. Kimberley Peters, Human geographer, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, University of Oldenburg
Date: March 24, 2021
Time: 17:00 – 18:30 (CET)
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IN THE MEDIA:
FWF video portrait
The best of all worlds
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?
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