The Politics of Marine Biodiversity Data

Global and National Policies and Practices of Monitoring the Oceans

An ERC Project

WHAT IS MARIPOLDATA?

MARIPOLDATA is a research project funded by the European Research Council from November 2018 to October 2023. 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.

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MARIPOLDATA Methods Workshop

13. September 2019/in General /by Arne Langlet

On the 10th and 11th of September, the MARIPOLDATA project hosted a workshop on conceptual and methodological frameworks and approaches for research at global environmental negotiations. The workshop built strongly on the work by Hughes and Vadrot on Methodological Innovation in the Study of Global Environmental Agreement Making and was held in relation to the […]

Slow progress in the third BBNJ meeting: Negotiations are moving – but sideways

6. September 2019/in General /by Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki

After the observations of the first week of the third Intergovernmental Conference (IGC 3) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity, the MARIPOLDATA team shares insights of the second week. This blog entry provides a summary of the topics discussed, overall progress made, as well as the challenges that remain to be […]

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MARIPOLDATA Seminar Series – Talk by Peter Jacques

The Shifting Context of Sustainability: Growth and the World Ocean Regime

March 12, 2020

The World Ocean Regime is not an official treaty agreed to by states in some formal process, but it probably governs the marine world. This talk will discuss how this regime was discovered and the nature of the economistic values and norms that are the main feature. This includes how the idea of sustainability has changed over time in discourses about the ocean to become more growth-oriented in a way that is not actually sustainable.

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Ocean Politics course ( M4 International Politics and Development)

Winter semester

As part of the Master’s degree in Political Science of the University of Vienna, Dr. Alice Vadrot will be giving a course about ocean politics. Starting from the premise that the ocean space is governed by competing interests (territorial, economic, political, military, and scientific) and perspectives (the ocean as a habitat, a resource provider, a transport surface, a battleground, an object of scientific inquiry), the seminar addresses key challenges for ocean protection in the 21st century.

Alice Vadrot part of Austria Biodiversity Council

September, 2019

Renowned scientists from various universities and experts from the fields of nature conservation, museums and landscape planning have joined together to form a Biodiversity Council in view of the extinction of species. ..

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