Gesa Pflitsch
Dr. Gesa Pflitsch MSc.
Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning
Location Peter-Jordan-Straße 65, 1180 Wien
Email gesa.pflitsch@boku.ac.at
Career
- 2023 Post-Doc in the FWF project "Universities as Institutional Entrepreneurs in Regional Sustainability Transitions", Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning (ILEN), BOKU, Vienna, Austria.
- 2022 - 2023 Associate professor at the Mohne Center for Innovation and Regional Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
- 2020 - 2021 Communication (Website and Newsletter), Carinthian International Center (CIC), Villach, Austria
- 2020 - 2021 Post-Doc in the working group "Geography of services, communication and innovation" (50%), University of Marburg, Germany
- 2016 - 2019 PhD thesis with the title "Micro-dynamics and institutional change in regional transition paths to sustainability" at the University of Marburg, Germany
- 2013 - 2013 Innovation- und Projectmanager, TransMIT GmbH, Gießen, Germany
- 2013 - 2017 Research assistant in the working group „Economic geography and location research“, University of Marburg, Germany
- 2010 - 2013 Master of Science, Human Geography: Innovation and Spatial Impact, University of Marburg, Germany
- 2004 - 2009 Magister Artium, Communication Science, University of Münster, Germany
Awards
- 2020 Post-Doc scholarship from the University of Marburg, Germany
- 2017 PhD scholarship from the University Marburg, Germany
Projects
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Publications
Knowledge Transfer to Society
Media
Lectures
(2024) The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Regional Sustainability Transitions. An integrative literature review.
Autoren: Hinterleitner, I.
24. Österreichischer Klimatag 2024
(2024) The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Regional Sustainability Transitions. An integrative literature review.
Autoren: Hinterleitner, I.
RSA Annual Conference, Global Challenges, Regional Collaboration and the Role of Places 2024
(2023) Analyzing by visualizing – how visuals can help to uncover the dynamics of time-space paths
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
Winter school on advanced qualitative methodology and theorizing in economic geography
(2023) Wie werden Hochschulen zu Treibern regionaler Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen?
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
Workshop „Transformationslabor Hochschule“ des Stifterverbands der deutschen Wissenschaft
(2023) "An organizational context for engaged universities rethinking the third mission from a valuation perspective"
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Ridvan, Cinar; Menzel, Max-Peter
Annual Conference of the Regional Studies Association
(2023) "Civil society actors in regional transformations to sustainability"
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Hendriks, Nadja; Radinger-Peer, Verena
Regiosuisse-Wissenschaftsforum 2023: Transformationsprozesse für lebendige Regionen
(2022) "Transition Topology: Capturing Institutional Dynamics in Regional Development Paths to Sustainability"
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
Ingenio Seminar
(2022) "Exploring multi-scalar effects on regional transformations to sustainability: A focus on (micro-)patterns"
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
6th Geography of Innovation Conference
(2022) "Foreign actors, local institutions: the role of transnational actors in Afghanistan’s energy landscape"
Autoren: Fahimi, Abdullah; Upham, Paul; Pflitsch, Gesa
6th Global Conference on Economic Geography
(2022) "Mapping institutional and organizational dynamics in regional development paths to sustainability with the transition topology"
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
IASS Workshop: IASS Workshop on Transformations towards sustainability at the regional level
(2022) "Institutional and organizational dynamics in regional sustainability transitions"
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
PhD course on Innovation and Sustainability Transitions
(2021) "Foreign actors/agents changing local institutions: The role of transnational actors in Afghanistan’s energy transitions"
Autoren: Fahimi, Abdullah; Upham, Paul; Pflitsch, Gesa
12th International Sustainability Transitions Conference
(2021) “Civil society in transition – Changing institutional work activities of civil society in the Augsburg region”.
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa, Hendriks, Nadja
12th International Sustainability Transitions Conference
(2021) Transitionstopologie – ein Ansatz zur Erfassung institutioneller Dynamiken in regionalen Entwicklungspfaden zur Nachhaltigkeit
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
Forschungskolloquium des Fachgebiets Nachhaltige Mobilität und transdisziplinäre Forschungsmethoden (NaMo) im Wintersemester 2021/22
(2019) „Viele Wege führen ans Ziel?! – Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in regionalen Nachhaltigkeitstransitionen“
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Hendriks, Nadja
Deutscher Kongress für Geographie
(2018) „Organizational and institutional change in regional transition paths to sustainability"
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
5th Global Conference on Economic Geography
(2018) „Transition topology – a methodological approach to map (systemic) change in transition paths”
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
9th International Sustainability Transitions Conference
(2017) The involvement of universities in regional transition paths to sustainability - insights from the Augsburg region
Autoren: Pflitsch, G; Radinger-Peer, V;
8th International Sustainability Transitions Conference 2017
(2016) „Organizational and institutional change – micro-dynamics in regional transition paths to sustainability”.
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
3rd Geography of Innovation Conference
(2015) „Mikro-Dynamiken und institutioneller Wandel in regionalen Transitionspfaden zur Nachhaltigkeit“.
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
Deutscher Kongress der Geographie
(2015) „Micro-dynamics and institutional change in regional transition paths to sustainability”.
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
4th Global Conference on Economic Geography
(2014) „Transition pathways to sustainability – an investigation of interdependent regional system dynamics”.
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Brenner, Thomas
Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Regionalwissenschaften
Towards an institutional conceptualization of regional transition dynamics
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
“Multi-scalar dynamics in the transformation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) into (regional) change agents for sustainability”. Panelist in the dialogue session “A dialogue session on spatial scalar confusion in the Geography of Sustainability Transition studies (GeoST)”
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Radinger-Peer, Verena
"Transition topology: Capturing institutional dynamics in regional development paths to sustainability"
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
„Temporäre Räume in regionalen Transitionspfaden zur Nachhaltigkeit”.
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
“A spatio-institutional perspective”. Panelist in the dialogue session “Salient research themes on the geography of sustainability transitions - Kick-off for the new GeoST thematic group”.
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa