Maximilian Benner is an economist and economic geographer with a habilitation degree (venia docendi) in human geography. As senior scientist and senior lecturer at the University of Vienna and non-tenured associate professor (“Privatdozent”) at the University of Klagenfurt, he focuses on innovation-based regional development and its impacts in terms of environmental sustainability, social justice, and inclusiveness. Empirically, he is…
Janina Dannenberg is a sustainability scientist with a specialisation on the intersection of gender and socio-ecological crisis and transformation. She leads the project “Nuclear Justice and Gender in the Sea of Islands” at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg. It focusses on the socio-ecological impacts of nuclear weapons and their interaction with climate changes through a gender lens…
Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently studies community-based initiatives, including citizen science and technologies, to assess and adapt to environmental degradation, as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been working on various topics related to human-environment relations, science and technology studies, citizen science, and global…
Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin (DE) with a PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). Her research focuses on climate adaptation with an emphasis on recognition, onto-epistemic justice and knowledge politics. Katriona works with creative and participatory methods to encourage critical engagement with dominant ways of thinking about climate change. Katriona has also…
For over two decades, I’ve been researching and teaching in the areas of energy system transformation, climate change adaptation, sustainable urban and regional development, and stakeholder and citizen participation. My work is deeply interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, shaped by close collaboration with civil society, private companies, and public institutions. Since 2018, I’ve been a senior researcher at artec – the…
