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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Too High Hopes for a High Seas Treaty?

12. September 2022/in General /by MARIPOLDATA Team

By Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki, Arne Langlet, Klaudija Cremers (IDDRI), Paul Dunshirn, Silvia Ruiz Rodríguez and Alice Vadrot Negotiations for a legally binding agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) have once more ended without conclusion of an Agreement. The process started in 2004 with the Ad-Hoc […]

Finalizing an Ocean Treaty: Drowning in detail or sailing towards compromise?

22. August 2022/in General /by MARIPOLDATA Team

By Arne Langlet, Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki, Paul Dunshirn, Silvia Ruiz Rodríguez, Daria Sander and Alice Vadrot After nearly two decades of negotiating a new legally binding agreement to conserve and sustainably use marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ treaty), Parties to the United Nations hope to finalize the treaty text during IGC-5 in […]

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NEWS & EVENTS

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

Submit your abstract for the research topic “Social Science Perspectives on Marine Biodiversity Governance” in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science!
Guest editors: Assoc-Prof Alice Vadrot & Prof Kimberley Peters

Deadline for Abstracts: November 1, 2022
Deadline for Papers: July 1, 2023

More info and how to submit here.

NEW PUBLICATIONS:

Vadrot, Alice B.M.. Ruiz-Rodríguez, Silvia C.. Brogat, Emmanuelle. Dunshirn, Paul. Langlet, Arne. Tessnow-von Wysocki, Ina and Wanneau, Krystel (2022). Towards a reflexive, policy-relevant and engaged ocean science for the UN decade: A social science research agenda. Earth System Governance, 14: 100150

Vadrot, Alice B.M., Ruiz-Rodríguez, Silvia C. (2022): Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites. International Studies Quarterly 66(3).

PRESENTATIONS & EVENTS:

Warum wir eine neue Umweltpolitik brauchen”, Presentation by Alice Vadrot
Event “UMWELT IM GESPRÄCH: Umweltpolitik in der Krise?!”
18.10.2022, 07:00pm (CEST), Natural History Museum Vienne, Austria
More information here.

Presentations by MARIPOLDATA at ESG Conference 20-23. October 2022:

Creating a Body of Science we need for the Ocean we want: Role and Characteristics of a Scientific and Technical Body for the new BBNJ Agreement by Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki & Alice Vadrot, 20.10.2022
Digital multilateralism in practice: Extending critical policy ethnography to digital negotiation sites by Alice Vadrot & Silvia C. Ruiz Rodríguezm, 20.10.2022
Contesting climate change in BBNJ negotiation: Practices of linking and unlinking marine biodiversity and climate change politics by Alice Vadrot, 21.10.2022
Who to listen to? – Understanding Authority in the emerging Marine Biodiversity Regime Complex by Arne Langlet & Alice Vadrot, 21.10.2022

Virtual Ocean Seminar Series

“Regional Fisheries Management Organizations: The interplay between governance and science” with Leandra Gonçalves
19.10.2022, 05:00-06:30pm (CEST), online (Zoom)
More information here.

IN THE MEDIA:

Presseaussendung: Ein neues Abkommen für die Weltmeere in Aussicht
Alice Vadrot, Arne Langlet & Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki in “Diskurs – das Wissenschaftsnetz”, 18.08.2022
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