A core part of TwinPolitics work package 2 is the quantitative study of environmental monitoring practices. This is achieved through 2 projects.
Global catalogue of ocean modelling projects
TwinPolitics builds a global catalogue of ocean modelling projects to better understand the background and potential applications of future DTO initiatives. Our team scans a wide selection of literature on ocean monitoring, modelling, and decision-support systems to systematically search for ongoing projects. We classify each encountered project in terms of host institutions, access conditions, public value, and technical properties. The catalogue will serve as a basis for case selection for the laboratory and policy ethnographies conducted at later stages of TwinPolitics.
Global data interdependencies in biodiversity monitoring
Biodiversity monitoring is becoming increasingly global, involving a complex landscape of scientific institutions, public administrations, and data infrastructures that provide, use, or channel data across national boundaries. In international relations theory, such cross-boundary exchanges are typically understood in terms of interdependencies, which, on the one hand, can reduce the costs of cooperation amongst involved actors, while, on the other hand, may be leveraged to pursue geopolitical interests. Led by Paul Dunshirn, a team of TwinPolitics researchers works on a mixed methods research paper to study the structure and effects of such ‘data interdependencies’ in the context of biodiversity monitoring.