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Maximilian Benner

@maximilianbenner.bsky.social
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Economic geographer working on green, just, and inclusive regional futures Senior Scientist & Senior Lecturer @ University of Vienna Privatdozent @ University of Klagenfurt www.maximilian-benner.eu

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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
What does it mean for high-flying imagined regional futures to fail? Check out this recently published article from my previous project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social l www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Failed futures? Unmaterialised visions and their ambivalence in regional development
The role of ideational processes in regional development has drawn growing attention recently, including the construction of imagined futures which provide guidance and directionality to regional p...
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
How does culture coevolve with regional paths? How does this coevolution shape directionality? This brand-new paper uses a cultural toolkit approach to explain how actors strategically use diverse imaginaries in contesting different visions of regional futures. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The coevolution of culture and industrial paths in regional restructuring and transition: A cultural toolkit approach
How regional industrial paths unfold and what contributes to their evolution and directionality are crucial questions for many regions. While the path…
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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....
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The geography of just transitions: a place-based framework
Countering the climate urgency requires industrial transitions in emission-intensive industries such as automotive, cement, metalworking, pulp and paper, and (petro)chemical manufacturing. While th...
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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: academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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-...
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S21 – Just regional industrial transitions: understanding barriers, processes and outcomes in reconciling decarbonisation and social justice – GeoInno2026
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨 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...
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🚨 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....
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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...
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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...
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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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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
RITMEP workshop with stakeholders
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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...
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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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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Happy to announce I am now permanent senior scientist and senior lecturer at @univie.ac.at
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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
Workshop on regional industrial transitions in Vöcklabruck (Upper Austria) with different stakeholders discussion challenges and opportunities of decarbonization
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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...
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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.
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Maximilian Benner @maximilianbenner.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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...
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Review of Regional Research | Volume 44, issue 3
Volume 44, issue 3 articles listing for Review of Regional Research
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