Maximilian Benner

S21 – Just regional industrial transitions: understanding barriers, processes and outcomes in reconciling decarbonisation and social justice – GeoInno2026

Are you working on just regional industrial transitions? Check out our call for a special session at GeoInno 2026 (organized with @michaelatrippl.bsky.social and Will Eadson)
www.geoinno2026.com/session/s21-...

07.05.2025 12:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Third co-development workshop in our RITMEP project on regional just transitions (led by @michaelatrippl.bsky.social) with Sebastian Fastenrath, Jannik Kastrup, and Emil Götz. This time in Amstetten and for the Mostviertel-Eisenwurzen region (Lower Austria). Funded by @klimafonds.bsky.social

29.04.2025 18:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was a pleasure to present our RITMEP project today at the Austrian Climate Day in Innsbruck, and to receive great feedback for the place-based perspective on green and just industrial transitions we are developing.
Have a look at our poster: ccca.ac.at/fileadmin/00...
@michaelatrippl.bsky.social

24.04.2025 16:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
Want to pursue a PhD in Vienna? Consider this great opportunity: fully funded PhD (praedoc) position in the new Horizon Europe project "TiCCA4Danu – Transformative Innovation for Climate Change Adaptation in the Danube Region" @univie.ac.at
geographie.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

11.04.2025 08:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Imaginaries: The Ideational Foundation of Sustainability Transitions Imaginaries have (again) become a fashionable concept in economic geography and particularly in the geography of sustainability transitions, drawing on inspirations from neighbouring fields such as c...

🚨 New paper alert: what role for imaginaries in sustainability transitions? In this paper in @tesg-journal.bsky.social, I propose distinguishing between imagined histories, imagined futures, imagined places, and imagined spaces
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

08.04.2025 08:18 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Knowledge exchange in peripheral coworking spaces: A study of proximities using social network analysis As coworking spaces expand beyond large urban centres into more peripheral regions, they are emerging as potential entrepreneurial hubs, fostering kno…

Very happy to see the first paper of my doctoral student Mikel Oleaga published in Geoforum: a great read about proximities in a peripheral coworking space in Petrer, Spain
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

12.03.2025 15:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

RITMEP workshop with stakeholders

Second transdisciplinary RITMEP workshop (funded by @klimafonds.bsky.social) in the highly industrialized region south of Vienna. Fascinating discussions about industrial decarbonization (e.g., cement, petrochemicals), energy transition, and regional visions @michaelatrippl.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

12.03.2025 12:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Multiple-challenge regional industrial transitions: The example of chemical regions While climate change is arguably the most urgent global environmental challenge, there are further, and often related, worrying human overshoots of pl…

New article online in EIST: why we should pay more attention to complex multiple-challenge transitions at the nexus of climate change and toxic pollution in regions hosting emission-intensive industries (e.g., chemicals)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

17.02.2025 20:12 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to announce I am now permanent senior scientist and senior lecturer at @univie.ac.at

03.02.2025 12:54 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Workshop on regional industrial transitions in Vöcklabruck (Upper Austria) with different stakeholders discussion challenges and opportunities of decarbonization

First workshop of the RITMEP project in Vöcklabruck, bringing together different stakeholders to discuss challenges and opportunities for regional industrial transitions in Gmunden & Vöcklabruck districts (Upper Austria). Funded by @klimafonds.bsky.social
@michaelatrippl.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

25.11.2024 11:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2025 RSA Annual Conference Special Sessions - RSA Main As part of the 2025 RSA Annual Conference, there will be a number of  Special Sessions running throughout the academic programme. Click here to submit your abstract.

Interested in the ideational turn in economic geography? Submit your abstract to our special session "Grasping the ideational dimension: the importance of narratives, visions and imaginaries" at RSA 2025 in Porto (w/ F. Görmar @max-roessler.bsky.social ) .
www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs...

21.11.2024 10:15 — 👍 26    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Review of Regional Research | Volume 44, issue 3 Volume 44, issue 3 articles listing for Review of Regional Research

Out now: our special issue "Sustainable and inclusive development in left-behind places" in Review of Regional Research (guest-edited by M. Trippl, R. Hassink, and me)
link.springer.com/journal/1003...

13.11.2024 12:28 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0