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 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.

MARIPOLDATA BLOG

Zooming in on BBNJ agreement-making with the MARIPOLDATAbase: a new resource for researching marine biodiversity negotiations

14. April 2025/in General /by Phoebe Fuhrmann

Written by Arne Langlet & Alice Vadrot As nations convene in New York for the inaugural BBNJ (Biodiversity Beyond national Jurisdiction) PrepCom, it is crucial to reflect on the negotiations that led to the BBNJ agreement, which spanned from 2018 to the adoption of the final text in 2023. Understanding the diverse interests, alliances, and […]

State preferences in international negotiations – using the MARIPOLDATAbase to analyze countries’ shifting positioning towards monetary benefit sharing of Marine Genetic Resources in the BBNJ negotiations

17. December 2024/in General /by MARIPOLDATA Team

Developed under the ERC-funded MARIPOLDATA project led by Associate Professor Alice Vadrot, the MARIPOLDATAbase catalogs Collaborative Event Ethnography (CEE) observations spanning the entire BBNJ (Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction) negotiations from 2018 to 2023. It provides comprehensive primary data on actors, alliances, statements, treaty text, positions, networks, concepts, and meeting formats. By offering unprecedented access to […]

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.

IN THE MEDIA

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

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Das Klima zwischen Politik und Wissenschaft Audimax Podcast with Alice Vadrot and Nils Güttler in Rudolphina Magazin, 02.06.2023 Listen here

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Hughes, H., & Vadrot, A. (Eds.). (2023). Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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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Zooming in on BBNJ agreement-making with the MARIPOLDATAbase: a new resource for researching marine biodiversity negotiations

State preferences in international negotiations – using the MARIPOLDATAbase to analyze countries’ shifting positioning towards monetary benefit sharing of Marine Genetic Resources in the BBNJ negotiations

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