Alice B. M. Vadrot

Alice B. M. Vadrot is Associate Professor for International Relations with a focus on Environmental Politics at the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) of the University of Cambridge. Her work addresses the role of knowledge and science in global environmental politics. She has extensively researched the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and developed the...See more

Alice B. M. Vadrot is Associate Professor for International Relations with a focus on Environmental Politics at the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) of the University of Cambridge. Her work addresses the role of knowledge and science in global environmental politics. She has extensively researched the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and developed the concept of "epistemic selectivities". As PI of the 5-year research project MARIPOLDATA, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) she develops and applies a new interdisciplinary methodology to study agreement-making and the interrelations between marine biodiversity politics and ocean science in practice. Vadrot is the author of "The Politics of Knowledge and Global Biodiversity" (Routledge, 2014) and editor of several special issues, research articles and editorials inter alia in Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics, Nature and Marine Policy. See less