Marija Isailovic is a PhD researcher at the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis of the Institute of Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije University in Amsterdam. Before enrolling as a PhD candidate at IVM, Marija graduated MSc at the interdisciplinary Master programme in International Development and Management at Lund University, Sweden, and BA in English language and Literature at Belgrade University, Serbia. In addition, she has a broad experience in conducting research on various sustainability issues in the context of the south and south-east Asia and Small Island Developing States in the Pacific’s. Together with Oscar Widerberg and under the supervision of Philipp Pattberg, Marija will be working on the research project “Coping with Fragmentation: Assessing and Reforming the current Architecture of Global Environmental Governance” in the next four years at IVM. Based on different methodological treatments, they will develop an integrated analytical framework for measuring the degree of fragmentation in the issue areas of climate change, biodiversity and marine ecosystem governance, examine its causes and consequences across different levels and scales of governance, and finally propose some response options.

Environmental Studies