@maximilianbenner
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
Just transitions don't unfold in the same way everywhere but a diverse geography, depending on place-based factors, power relations, and a region's multiscalar positionality. New paper in @regionalstudies.bsky.social w/ V. Grünenwald and J. Kastrup
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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-...
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
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
🚨 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...
🚨 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....
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...
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
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...
Happy to announce I am now permanent senior scientist and senior lecturer at @univie.ac.at
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
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...
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...