Camilla Chlebna

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• PhD
• Senior researcher at Zentrum für Soziale Innovation

The sustainable transformation of socio-technical infrastructure systems such as energy or mobility has become a dominant theme in regional development policy. Regional sustainability transitions enable the integration of local development goals associated with structural change with ubiquitous 'global challenges' such as combating climate change....

The large-scale deployment of low-carbon energy technologies - such as wind power plants, heat pumps, or battery storage - is crucial for reducing CO2 emissions and limiting climate change. The success of this transition depends on how these technologies are perceived by civil society and whether key societal stakeholders support or oppose their ro...

Planetary boundaries set the limits within which human societies can operate and thrive. Given that planetary boundaries are severely being exceeded at the moment due to anthropogenic activities, while human development is fundamentally dependent on the state of the environment, we argue that the research agenda within economic geography needs to b...

In the context of regional energy transitions entrenched positions between involved actors are empirically observable but we lack a regionally specific theoretical foundation to grasp and explain them. The study suggests the concept of 'Regional Transition Fields' (RTF) which encompass all actors, activities and organisations in a region that share...

Der mit der Energiewende einhergehende gesellschaftliche Umstrukturierungsprozess ist komplex und impliziert eine Reihe von Veränderungen, u. a. neu gegründete Organisationen, die Verschiebung von Macht zwischen Akteurinnen, das Hinterfragen etablierter Einstellungen sowie den Aufbau von neuem Wissen.

This paper explores the dynamics that result in the entrenched positions that can be empirically observed in regions in the context of energy transition. We conduct our analysis along the concept of strategic action fields. Thereby we develop 'Regional Transition Fields' (RTF) that encompass all actors, activities and organisations in a region that...

The large-scale deployment of low-carbon energy technologies is crucial for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ideally limiting climate change. The success of this transition towards a carbon-neutral society depends on how these technologies are perceived by civil society and whether key societal stakeholders support or oppose their roll-out. Tw...

In advanced transition processes sector coupling becomes key to reach net zero objectives. The literature on multi-system interactions addresses the coupling of different systems by analysing how technologies, institutions, and actors connect. Our contribution zooms in on better understanding the concrete activities and characteristics of actors wh...

A comprehensive perspective of transformative regional development is pertinent considering complex present and future challenges such as the climate crisis. Particularly in face of ecological boundaries which manifest themselves in limited resources and result in social disputes, a realistic grip on transformative regional development is of utmost...

In transition studies, formal inter-organizational networks - 'networking organizations' - are considered essential for inducing socio-technical change. Yet, there is little research on how their structural composition and role evolve in advanced transitions and which tensions arise over time. We address these gaps by combining insights from networ...

This contribution outlines how transition processes can be analysed as 'transition work'. We draw on the concept of institutional work, review existing applications in transition research and adapt it to transitions, labelling the result 'transition work'. Transition work details how actors 'create', 'maintain' and 'disrupt' transition processes. B...

Der Ausbau der Windenergie stockt, auch weil es an genehmigten Flächen mangelt. Hier kommt regionalen Entscheidungsträgern aus Politik und Verwaltung eine wichtige Rolle zu. Sie bestimmen maßgeblich mit, wo und wie viele Windkraftanlagen ausgewiesen werden. Gleichzeitig werden sie aber in Diskussionen zur „Akzeptanz“ der Windenergie oft ausgeblende...

A comprehensive perspective of regional transformative development is pertinent in light of recurring crises and grand societal challenges. We propose an integrative research agenda for transformative regional development, based on a co-evolutionary perspective on industry-focused regional path development and transitions. Combining existing knowle...

In transition studies, formal inter-organizational networks – ‘networking organizations’ – are considered essential for inducing socio-technical change. Yet, there is little research on how their structural composition and role evolve in advanced transitions and which tensions arise over time. We address these gaps by combining insights from networ...

Legitimacy is a key function within Technological Innovation Systems (TIS), influencing the development and diffusion of novel technologies such as onshore wind energy. By combining insights from TIS and from organization studies, we provide theoretical and empirical underpinnings to 'legitimacy', a concept often defined superficially and mapped at...

Despite a vivid debate, we still only partly understand what actually happens in regional energy transitions. This contribution introduces transition work as a tool to analyse transition processes in more detail. Taking an actor-oriented perspective, we draw on the concept of institutional work and adapt it to transitions, therefore arriving at the...

Recurrent economic and financial crises, globalization, digitalization, and climate change are posing major challenges for regional economies to constantly renew their industrial structures. Over the past few years much progress has been made in understanding how new path development unfolds in a regional context. Earlier contributions to the path...

Regional energy transitions are complex processes that are determined by manifold dynamics. We assign these to three core dimensions: the socio-technical, the spatial, and the temporal dimension, and integrate them into a comprehensive framework. We conceptualise the overall transition as unfolding in phases. The first three phases, 'initiation', '...

Recurrent economic and financial crises, globalisation, digitalisation and climate change are posing major challenges for regional economies to constantly renew their industrial structures. Over the past few years much progress has been made in understanding how new path development unfolds in a regional context. However, most conceptualisations an...

Recurrent economic and financial crises, globalisation, digitalisation and climate change are posing major challenges for regional economies to constantly renew their industrial structures. Over the past few years much progress has been made in understanding how new path development unfolds in a regional context. However, most conceptualisations an...

This paper analyses the roles of institutions in facilitating or impeding the creation of new technological pathways in different countries. It is argued that the successful invention, innovation and diffusion of new technologies require the co-evolution of relevant institutions. It is argued that informal institutions, through their impact on peop...

This is the presentation of an upcoming paper of the role of institutions for new technological path creation in different geo-political spaces. It presents a comparison of the development of the wind energy industry in Germany and Britain. It is argued that institutions need to co-evolve with technological trajectories and changing circumstances f...

The key argument of this thesis is that institutional settings have a crucial impact on path dependent economic development. It is also argued that both formal and informal institutions play an important role. The contribution to knowledge lies in the unique combination of a path dependency perspective with an institutional focus and the propositio...