Department of Political Science

Environmental Politics Research Group (EPRG)

The Environmental Politics Research Group (EPRG) is hosted by the research area International Relations and Environment within the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. It is directed by Prof. Alice Vadrot.

Mission statement | Team | Teaching | News & events | Contact

Group photo of the Environmental Politics Research Group at the IPW

Mission statement

The Environmental Politics Research Group (EPRG) at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna conducts sound, excellent, reflexive, relevant and internationally visible research spanning different actors, sites and processes of global environmental agreement-making. Our research strives to be creative, innovative and impactful within and beyond academia. We have a strong focus on empirical research, combining different qualitative and quantitative methods such as event ethnography, social network analysis, surveys, interviews, bibliometrics, oral histories, and text-mining. We approach global environmental politics as unfolding through practices, and social relations. We collect data in, and contributed to the understanding of several international agreements and negotiations such as the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Further information can be found on the EPRG website

Team

Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr.

Alice Vadrot

Head

Teaching (u:find)

Dr.

Arne Langlet-Uranüs

B.A. M.A.

Senior scientist

Teaching (u:find)

Carolin Hirt

B.A. B.A. B.Sc. M.A.

Doctoral researcher

Wenwen Lyu

M.Sc.

Doctoral researcher

Felix Nütz

B.A. M.A.

Doctoral researcher

Silvia C. Ruiz Rodríguez

B.A. M.A.

Doctoral researcher

Hristina Talkova

B.A.

Doctoral researcher

Teaching (u:find)

Emil Wieringa Hildebrand

B.A. M.A.

Doctoral researcher

Felix Wurm

Student assistant

Teaching

Bachelor's programme:
- BAK8 International Politics (discontinued)
- BAK10 International Politics and Development (discontinued)
- BAK7 International Politics and Globalisation
- BAK11 International Politics and Globalisation
Master's programme:
- M4 International Politics and Development (discontinued)
- M3.10 Environmental Policy
- M4.10 Environmental Policy

For additional courses, please refer to the individual u:find profiles of the staff members.

News & events

Save the Dates: Ocean Seminars in winter semester 2026/2027

21.09.2026 News

Once again, the team of the ERC project “TwinPolitics” invites international scholars. This new season of the Ocean Seminar series (an official UN Ocean Decade activity) reflects the role of science in multilateral environmental negotiations.

Data Steward for the new research project “Environmental Negotiation Data Collection, Curation and Analysis Toolkit (ENCCAT)”

08.09.2026 Job Postings

The Environmental Politics Research Group is hiring a Data Steward in the new FFG project “ENCCAT”. Working hours: 30-40h/week, start date: December 2026, classification in accordance with the CBA. Application deadline: 04 October 2026.

Negotiating Futures: Three Visions for the International Seabed Authority

07.09.2026 Publications

In their latest article in the journal “Geopolitics”, Emil W. Hildebrand and Alice Vadrot examine three possible visions of the International Seabed Authority (ISA).

IPW Lecture with lna Tessnow-von Wysocki (Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ)

Sharing one Ocean: BBNJ and the International Seabed Authority

27.01.2027

17:00 - 18:30

IPW Lectures | EPRG | International Relations and Environment

Contact

Julia Chapotot–Necker

B.A.

Email
+43-1-4277-494 80

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