Project description
Investigating the political aspects of marine biodiversity data
Marine biodiversity data will play a central role in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. However, not all countries have the capacity to develop and use data infrastructures. Conflicting perceptions of who benefits from marine biodiversity research represent a significant obstacle, but the political aspects of the ensuing data remain understudied. Based on observations on how biodiversity data is represented and used, the EU-funded MARIPOLDATA project will develop and implement a new multiscale methodology for the analysis of science–policy interrelations in empirical research. To achieve this goal, the project will combine ethnographic studies at intergovernmental negotiation sites, comparative analysis of national biodiversity monitoring policies and practices, bibliometric and social network analyses and oral history interviews.
Objective
In order to protect marine biodiversity and ensure that benefits are equally shared, the UN General Assembly has decided to develop a new legally binding treaty under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Marine biodiversity data will play a central role: Firstly, in supporting intergovernmental efforts to identify, protect and monitor marine biodiversity. Secondly, in informing governments interested in particular aspects of marine biodiversity, including its economic use and its contribution to biosecurity. In examining how this data are represented and used, this project will create a novel understanding of the materiality of science-policy interrelations and identify new forms of power in global environmental politics as well as develop the methodologies to do so. This is crucial, because the capacities to develop and use data infrastructures are unequally distributed among countries and global initiatives for data sharing are significantly challenged by conflicting perceptions of who benefits from marine biodiversity research. Despite broad recognition of these challenges within natural science communities the political aspects of marine biodiversity data remain understudied. Academic debates tend to neglect the role of international politics in legitimising and authorising scientific concepts, data sources and criteria and how this influences national monitoring priorities. The central objective of MARIPOLDATA is to overcome these shortcomings by developing and applying a new multiscale methodology for grounding the analysis of science-policy interrelations in empirical research. An interdisciplinary team, led by the PI, will collect and analyse data across different policy-levels and spatial scales by combining 1) ethnographic studies at intergovernmental negotiation sites with 2) a comparative analysis of national biodiversity monitoring policies and practices and 3) bibliometric and social network analyses and oral history interviews for mapping marine biodiversity science.
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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1010 WIEN
Austria
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