Verena is trained as a spatial and regional planner and holds a PhD in the field of regional planning and regional economics, investigating the impact of a decentralized location pattern of universities on the development of their (rural) location region. Her recent research interests cover regional path development, especially regional sustainability transitions, strategic agency, institutional and organisational change. She has been the Chair of the AESOP Young Academics Network and served on the AESOP executive committee. Verena currently is a FWF Hertha Firnberg fellow.
Please find below a message from Verena:
As the RSA Ambassador to Austria, my role is to inform you about and encourage you to participate in the various opportunities (e.g. funding, webinars, conferences) provided by the association. A particular concern of mine is to publicize and recruit the RSA’s numerous offers and funding for Phd and early careers. As my role as ambassador is an informing and bridging one, I kindly invite you to contact me with ideas and/or new initiatives. I look forward to hear from you!Best wishes
Verena Radinger-Peer
Below are a list of publications with relation to Austria:
Mocca, E., Friesenecker, M. and Kazepov, Y., 2020. Greening Vienna. The Multi-Level Interplay of Urban Environmental Policy–Making. Sustainability, 12(4), p.1577.
Boczy, T. and Cordini, M.M., 2020. Narratives of territorial cohesion and economic growth: A comparative study. Social Inclusion, 8(4), pp.218-228.
Boczy, T., Cefalo, R., Parma, A. and Nielsen, R.S., 2020. Positioning the urban in the global knowledge economy: Increasing competitiveness or inequality. Social Inclusion, 8(4), pp.194-207.
Cordini, M., Boczy, T. and Cefalo, R., 2021. Place-Sensitive Social Investment and Territorial Cohesion: Implications for Sustainability. Sustainability, 13(13), p.7085.
Friesenecker, M., Cefalo, R., Boczy, T., Kazepov, Y. 2019. Territorialized ‘Social Investment’: A new approach to address Austria’s socio-spatial disparities in employment and unemployment. GAM 15 – Territorial Justice. Jovis.
Harfst, J.; Sandriester, J. (2021) Industrial Heritage Tourism as a Driver of Sustainable Development? A Case Study of Steirische Eisenstrasse (Austria). Sustainability 13(7):3857, DOI:10.3390/su13073857.
Oedl-Wieser, T. and Dax, T. (2018) The Impact of LEADER Initiatives to Rural Revitalization in Austria, in: Lützeler, R. (ed.) Rural Areas between Decline and Resurgence, Lessons from Japan and Austria. Beiträge zur Japanologie Band 46. Abteilung für Japanologie des Instituts für Ostasienwissenschaften, Universität Wien: Wien, 151-166.
Dax, T. (2019) Development of mountainous regions: smart specialization approaches as a means to overcoming peripheralization, in: Kristensen, I., Dubois, A. and Teräs, J. (eds) Strategic Approaches to Regional Development, Smart Experimentation in Less-Favoured Regions. Series Regions and Cities, Abingdon: Routledge, 52-67.
Machold, I. and Dax, T. (2019) New Patterns of Mobility, Processes of Integration, and Agency in Austrian Rural Areas, in: Perlik.M., Galera, G., Machold, I. and Membretti, A. (eds.) Alpine Refugees: Immigration at the Core of Europe. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 95-106.
Dax, T. (2020) Neoendogenous Rural development in Mountain Areas, in: Cejudo, E. and Navarro, F. (eds.) Neoendogenous Development in European Rural Areas. Springer Geography. Cham: Springer, 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33463-5_1
Streifeneder, T. and Dax, T. (2020) Agritourism in Europe: Enabling Factors and Current Developments of Sustainable On-Farm Tourism in Rural Areas. In: Kala, D. and Bagri, S.C. (eds.) Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism. IGI Global. Hershey PA, USA, 40-58.
Machold, I., Dax, T. and Oedl-Wieser, T. (2020) Achieving Territorial Impacts through Local development Initiatives: Lessons from EU’s Long-Term LEADER Programme. In: Proceedings of 2019 Hebei International Think-tank Forum: Regional Economic Development and Core Competence, 295-307.
Gløersen, E., Price, M.F., Borec, A., Dax, T. and Giordano, B. (2016), Cohesion in Mountainous Regions of the EU – Research for REGI Committee, European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, Policies Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies, Regional Development, IP/B/REGI/IC/2015_175. Brussels: European Parliament. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/573420/IPOL_STU%282016%29573420_EN.pdf
Drexler, C., Braun, V., Christie, D., Claramunt, B., Dax, T., Jelen, I., Kanka, R., Katsoulakos, N., Le Roux, G., Price, M., Scheurer, T. and Weingartner, R. (2016) Mountains for Europe’s Future – A Strategic Research Agenda. Bern: The Mountain Research Initiative. 41pp.
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Dax, T. and Copus, A. (2016) The Future of Rural Development, in: European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies (ed) Research for AGRI Committee – CAP Reform Post-2020 – Challenges in Agriculture, Workshop Documentation, IP/B/AGRI/IC/2015-195. Brussels: Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies, Agriculture and Rural Development, 221-303. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/585898/IPOL_STU(2016)585898_EN.pdf
Dax, T. (2017) Mountain development in Europe: Research Priorities and Trends, Doctoral Thesis. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Vienna. http://zidapp.boku.ac.at/abstracts/download.php?property_id=107&dataset_id=9914
Chilla, T., Heugel, A., Streifeneder, T., Ravazzoli, E., Laner, P., Teston, F., Tappeiner, U., Egarter, L., Dax, T., Machold, I., Pütz, M., Marot, N. and Ruault, J.F. (2018) Alps 2050 Common spatial perspectives for the Alpine area. Towards a common vision. Final Report, 21.11.2018. ESPON Project Targeted Analysis. ESPON EGTC, Luxembourg. https://www.espon.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/01_alps_2050_FR_main_report.pdf
Chilla, T., Heugel, A., Streifeneder, T., Ravazzoli, E., Laner, P., Teston, F., Tappeiner, U., Egarter, L., Dax, T., Machold, I., Pütz, M., Marot, N. and Ruault, J.F. (2019) Alps 2050 Common spatial perspectives for the Alpine area. Towards a common vision. The Alps 2050 Atlas. ESPON Project Targeted Analysis. ESPON EGTC, Luxembourg. https://www.espon.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/ESPON_Alps_2050_FR_annex_ATLAS.pdf
Copus, A., Kahila, P., Fritsch, M., Dax, T., Kovacs, K., Tagai, G., Weber, R., Grunfelder, J., Löfving, L., Moodie, J., Ortega-Reig, M., Ferrandis, A., Pires, A. and Meredith, D. (2020) Final Report. European Shrinking Rural Areas: Challenges, Actions and Perspectives for Territorial Governance, ESPON 2020 project ESCAPE. Version 21/12/2020. ESPON EGTC, Luxembourg, 64pp. https://www.espon.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/ESPON%20ESCAPE%20Main%20Final%20Report.pdf
Copus, A., Kahila, P., Fritsch, M., Dax, T., Kovacs, K., Tagai, G., Weber, R., Grunfelder, J., Löfving, L., Moodie, J., Ortega-Reig, M., Ferrandis, A., Pires, A. and Meredith, D. (2020) Synthesis Report. European Shrinking Rural Areas: Challenges, Actions and Perspectives for Territorial Governance, ESPON 2020 project ESCAPE. Version 21/12/2020. ESPON EGTC, Luxembourg, 16pp. https://www.espon.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/ESPON%20ESCAPE%20Synthesis%20Report.pdf
Copus, A. and Dax, T. (2020) Final Report – Annex 1 Policy Background. European Shrinking Rural Areas: Challenges, Actions and Perspectives for Territorial Governance, ESPON 2020 project ESCAPE. Version 21/12/2020. ESPON EGTC, Luxembourg. https://www.espon.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/ESPON%20ESCAPE%20Final%20Report%20Annex%2001%20-%20Policy%20Context.pdf
Dax, T. and Copus, A. (2020) Final Report – Annex 13 How to achieve a transformation framework for Shrinking Rural Regions. European Shrinking Rural Areas: Challenges, Actions and Perspectives for Territorial Governance, ESPON 2020 project ESCAPE. Version 21/12/2020. ESPON EGTC, Luxembourg, 45pp. https://www.espon.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/ESPON%20ESCAPE%20Final%20Report%20Annex%2013%20-%20Transformation%20Framework.pdf
Schuh, B., Dax, T., Andronic, C., Derszniak-Noirjean, M., Gaupp-Berghausen, M., Hsiung, C.-H., Münch, A., Machold, M., Schroll, K. and Brkanovic, S. (2020) The challenge of land abandonment after 2020 and options for mitigating measures. Research for AGRI-Committee. European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, Brussels. https://bit.ly/39ElcFJ
Goldstein, G; Radinger-Peer, V; Sedlacek, S; (2019): The pathways and challenges of university engagement: comparative case studies. Varga, A.; Erdos, K. (ed) Handbook of Universities and Regional Development. pp 251-278; Edward Elgar Publishing, Celtenham, UK; Nordhampton, MA, ISBN: 978 1 78471 570 0
Radinger-Peer, V.; Sedlacek, S.; Goldstein, H.: The path-dependent evolution of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE) – dynamics and region-specific assets of the case of Vienna (Austria). European Planning Studies 26 (8), 1499-1518. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1494136
Pflitsch, G., Radinger-Peer, V.*: Developing boundary spanning capacity for regional sustainability transitions – a comparative case study of the universities of Augsburg (Germany) and Linz (Austria). Special Issue “Putting sustainability transition into spatial and socio-cultural context”, Sustainability, 10, doi:10.3390/su10040918.
2017
Radinger-Peer, V.; Pflitsch, G. (2017): The role of higher education institutions in regional transition paths towards sustainability. The case of Linz (Austria). Review of Regional Research, 12, 1-27; ISSN 0173-7600. https://doi-1org-10016166r08cd.pisces.boku.ac.at/10.1007/s10037-017-0116-9
Goldstein, G; Peer, V; Sedlacek, S; (2017): Barriers to the Generation of University Spin-offs: A case study of Vienna. In: Karlsson, Ch; Andersson, M; Bjerke, L. (Eds.), Geographies of Growth. Innovations, Networks and Collaborations. New Horizons in Regional Science. pp 411-442; Edward Elgar Publishing, Celtenham, UK; Nordhampton, MA, USA; ISBN 978 1 78536 059 6.
Peer, V.; (2016): Decentralised Higher Education Infrastructure in rural areas as measure to impede the outmigration of highly qualified young women? In: Wiest, K (Hrsg.), Women and Migration in rural Eurpe. Labour Markets, Representations and Policies. Palgrave McMillan, Basingstoke; pp 209 -229. ISBN 978–1–137–48303–4
Radinger-Peer, V; Penker, M; Chiari, S; Danzinger, G; Enengel, B; Kuhnel, F; Sammer, K (2015) Regional Vulnerability to the Challenges of Climate Change and Energy Provision Lessons Learned from Transdisciplinary Assessments in Austria and Germany. GAIA. 2015; 24(4): 261-270. https://doi-1org-10016166r08cd.pisces.boku.ac.at/10.14512/gaia.24.4.12
Peer, V., Stöglehner, G. (2013): Universities as change agent for sustainability – framing the role of knowledge transfer and generation in regional development processes. In: Journal of Cleaner Production 44:85-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.12.003