Section: Research Policy & Development

Function: Senior Researcher

Contact:

• Email: chlebna@zsi.at

Work and research focus:

Empirical focus

• energy, food (agriculture) and waste
• climate adaptation

Theoretical interests

• Geography of sustainable innovation and sufficiency
• Socio-technical system analyses
• Multi-system interaction

Running and completed projects:

• CircSyst - Circular Systemic Solutions: Plastic, Packaging, Biowaste, Water (2024)
• MountResilience (2023)

Other Publications:

Alsheimer, Sven; Schnell, Tamara; Chlebna, Camilla; Rohe, Sebastian (2025): Competing terms for complementary concepts? Acceptance and legitimacy. In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 207, S. 114960. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2024.114960.

Chlebna, C.; Evenhuis, E.; Morales, D. (2024): Economic geography and planetary boundaries: Embracing the planet’s uncompromising call to action. In: Progress in Economic Geography 2 (2), 100021. DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100021.

Chlebna, C.; Mattes, J. (2024): Regional Transition Fields - Exploring institutional dynamics of contestation and entrenchment in an energy transition case in Germany. In: Energy Research & Social Science 116, 103684. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103684.

Chlebna, C., Löhr, M., Mattes, J., Rohe, S., 2024. Regionale Treiber und Hemmnisse der Windenergieentwicklung in Deutschland. Geographische Rundschau, 22–26.

Chlebna, C., Martin, H., Mattes, J., 2023. Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions. Environ Plan A 55, 222-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221137346

Löhr, M., Chlebna, C., 2023. Multi-system interactions in hydrogen-based sector coupling projects: System entanglers as key actors. Energy Research & Social Science 105, 103282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103282

Löhr, M., Chlebna, C., Mattes, J., 2022. From institutional work to transition work: Actors creating, maintaining and disrupting transition processes. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 42, 251–267. 10.1016/j.eist.2021.12.005.

Rohe, S., Chlebna, C., 2022. The evolving role of networking organizations in advanced sustainability transitions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 183. 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121916.

Rohe, S., Chlebna, C., 2021. „Wir haben die Vorgaben seit Jahren erfüllt!“ – Regionale Entscheidungsträger und die Windenergie. Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen 72, 58-62

Rohe, S., Chlebna, C., 2021. A spatial perspective on the legitimacy of a technological innovation system: Regional differences in onshore wind energy. Energy Policy. 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112193.

Chlebna, C., Mattes, J., 2020. The fragility of regional energy transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 37, 66–78. 10.1016/j.eist.2020.07.009.

Frangenheim, A., Trippl, M., Chlebna, C., 2020. Beyond the 'single path view': Inter-path dynamics in regional contexts. Economic Geography, 31–51. 10.1080/00130095.2019.1685378.

Chlebna, C.; Simmie, J. (2018): New technological path creation and the role of institutions in different geo-political spaces. In: European Planning Studies 26 (5), S. 969–987. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1441380.

Education and career:

2022 - 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, Working Group for Economic Geography, Department of Geography, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany

2018 - 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Working Group for Organisation & Innovation, Institute for Social Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany

2017 - 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Working Group for Economic Geography, Department for Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria

2013 - 2017: PHD in Economic Geography, Department for Planning, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

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