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Maximilian Benner
@maximilianbenner.bsky.social
Economic geographer working on green, just, and inclusive regional futures
Senior Scientist & Senior Lecturer @ University of Vienna
Privatdozent @ University of Klagenfurt
https://www.maximilian-benner.eu
Compared to the growth of news paths, the decline of old paths (particularly under decarbonization pressure) is not fully understood. In this new paper, @michaelatrippl.bsky.social, J. Kastrup, and I explore the dimensions of old path decline:
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November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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-...
S21 – Just regional industrial transitions: understanding barriers, processes and outcomes in reconciling decarbonisation and social justice – GeoInno2026
www.geoinno2026.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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
April 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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
April 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🚨 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
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April 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🚨 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
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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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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...
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…
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March 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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
March 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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...
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…
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February 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Happy to announce I am now permanent senior scientist and senior lecturer at @univie.ac.at
February 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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
November 25, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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...
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.
www.regionalstudies.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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...
Review of Regional Research | Volume 44, issue 3
Volume 44, issue 3 articles listing for Review of Regional Research
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November 13, 2024 at 12:28 PM