Robert Knippschild
Biographic Data
| ID | 5042703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Knippschild |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Knippschild |
| SIGNATURE | KNIPPSCHILD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6643-7377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Negotiating Possibilities in Shrinking Cities
Dominant narratives of urban success continue to privilege growth and acceleration. Within this framework, shrinking cities are frequently labelled as left‐behind, lagging, or peripheralized places. Such stigmatizing interpretations not only obscure the structural conditions of urban shrinkage but may also foster a perceived loss of agency and subsequently constrain local capacities to envision and actively shape alternative urban futures. This t…
Heritage in a Circular Economy
The building industry is one of the most resource‐intensive sectors globally, accounting for significant environmental impacts through material extraction, processing, and waste generation. In the quest to mitigate climate change and preserve natural resources, the integration of circular economy (CE) principles into various sectors, including heritage conservation (HC), has gained notable attention. The CE framework corresponds with the general …
Regional design for post-mining transformation
This article reports on an attempt to implement regional design in a decarbonization transition in Lusatia, one of Germany’s lignite regions. As visioning tools, regional designs have great potential for application in coal-regions facing sustainability transitions. Through the implementation of the Lusatia 2050 Planning Lab, we find that the politically induced nature of the present transition, combined with regional factors, such its cross-bord…
In-migration for transforming peripheral locations through a real-world experiment? Experiment insights on location decisions in the medium-sized city of Görlitz, Germany
A real-world experiment was implemented in the city of Görlitz to gain knowledge about the requirements for, and the opportunities of, in-migration to revitalize urban areas and increase local capacities for sustainability transformation.Many cities, in particular those in peripheral locations, are dependent on in-migration to compensate for the negative population development often experienced due to demographic and economic change. In addition,…
Local policy-making within the multilevel system
Our motivation for undertaking this research was to verify the scope and results of public policies aimed at supporting peripheralised medium-sized cities, and to check how these policies have been perceived by stakeholders within these cities. We selected the Polish-German borderland as a case region for this, primarily due to a particular concentration of cities experiencing the detrimental effects of socio-economic transformation. These are al…
Strategies for energy transition and regional development in European post-coal mining regions
To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, Czechia and Germany have created framework conditions to phase out lignite while developing the coal regions into pioneers of sustainability transformation. These clean energy transitions are associated with a wide range of threats and opportunities, including employment and identity issues. Based on two European case studies – the Ústí Region in Czechia and Lusatia in Germany – we investigate regional devel…
Guiding principles in transformation processes of coal phase-out. The German case of Lusatia
Everything All Right at the Internal EU Borders? The Ambivalent Effects of Cross-Border Integration and the Rise of Euroscepticism
The policy of the European Union, which promotes a vision of Europe without borders and has fostered the development of cooperation across borders over 25 years, has led, in some parts of Europe, to the emergence of so-called integrated cross-border regions. Thus far, the increase of cross-border flows and interactions has always been a normative and almost unquestioned policy paradigm. However, tendencies of re-bordering and signs of growing Eur…
Border Regions as Disturbed Functional Areas
Border regions are commonly perceived as disadvantaged areas marked by peripheral location. Most of them are indeed suffering from the distance to political decision centers and economic core regions. The main reason for this drawback can be found in barrier effects caused by the presence of state borders, leading to a truncation of potential catchment areas. This paper attempts to bring together two different approaches: a spatially oriented app…
The conformance and performance principles in territorial cooperation
The conformance and performance principles in territorial cooperation: a critical reflection on the evaluation of INTERREG projects. Regional Studies. In view of the influence that the diverse national and regional contexts of project partners has on the success of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) projects, this article argues that a realistic evaluation of projects should consider not only the achievement of stated objectives (conformance)…
Supraregional Partnerships in Large Cross-Border Areas—Towards a New Category of Space in Europe
Border regions in Europe not only face disadvantages but are also characterized by specific development potentials. At the moment supra-regional coalitions at different spatial levels are emerging in Europe. In addition, along Germany's western border four large border regions joined a demonstration project on supraregional partnerships in order to establish a new form of cross-border regionalization in economically strong cross-border regions an…
Systemic evaluation of cross‐border networks of actors
Cross‐border networks of actors constitute a special type of cross‐border cooperation as well as a special kind of network. This form of cooperation is characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, particularly in the case of the Polish‐German and the Czech‐German borders with their problematic history and rather weak traditions of cooperation. Evaluations can help to raise the effectiveness of cross‐border networks. This article refers to the c…
The conformance and performance principles in territorial cooperation
The conformance and performance principles in territorial cooperation: a critical reflection on the evaluation of INTERREG projects. Regional Studies. In view of the influence that the diverse national and regional contexts of project partners has on the success of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) projects, this article argues that a realistic evaluation of projects should consider not only the achievement of stated objectives (conformance)…
Everything All Right at the Internal EU Borders? The Ambivalent Effects of Cross-Border Integration and the Rise of Euroscepticism
The policy of the European Union, which promotes a vision of Europe without borders and has fostered the development of cooperation across borders over 25 years, has led, in some parts of Europe, to the emergence of so-called integrated cross-border regions. Thus far, the increase of cross-border flows and interactions has always been a normative and almost unquestioned policy paradigm. However, tendencies of re-bordering and signs of growing Eur…
Systemic evaluation of cross‐border networks of actors
Cross‐border networks of actors constitute a special type of cross‐border cooperation as well as a special kind of network. This form of cooperation is characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, particularly in the case of the Polish‐German and the Czech‐German borders with their problematic history and rather weak traditions of cooperation. Evaluations can help to raise the effectiveness of cross‐border networks. This article refers to the c…
Border Regions as Disturbed Functional Areas
Border regions are commonly perceived as disadvantaged areas marked by peripheral location. Most of them are indeed suffering from the distance to political decision centers and economic core regions. The main reason for this drawback can be found in barrier effects caused by the presence of state borders, leading to a truncation of potential catchment areas. This paper attempts to bring together two different approaches: a spatially oriented app…
Systemic evaluation of cross‐border networks of actors
Cross‐border networks of actors constitute a special type of cross‐border cooperation as well as a special kind of network. This form of cooperation is characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, particularly in the case of the Polish‐German and the Czech‐German borders with their problematic history and rather weak traditions of cooperation. Evaluations can help to raise the effectiveness of cross‐border networks. This article refers to the c…
Supraregional Partnerships in Large Cross-Border Areas—Towards a New Category of Space in Europe
Border regions in Europe not only face disadvantages but are also characterized by specific development potentials. At the moment supra-regional coalitions at different spatial levels are emerging in Europe. In addition, along Germany's western border four large border regions joined a demonstration project on supraregional partnerships in order to establish a new form of cross-border regionalization in economically strong cross-border regions an…
The conformance and performance principles in territorial cooperation
The conformance and performance principles in territorial cooperation: a critical reflection on the evaluation of INTERREG projects. Regional Studies. In view of the influence that the diverse national and regional contexts of project partners has on the success of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) projects, this article argues that a realistic evaluation of projects should consider not only the achievement of stated objectives (conformance)…
Border Regions as Disturbed Functional Areas
Border regions are commonly perceived as disadvantaged areas marked by peripheral location. Most of them are indeed suffering from the distance to political decision centers and economic core regions. The main reason for this drawback can be found in barrier effects caused by the presence of state borders, leading to a truncation of potential catchment areas. This paper attempts to bring together two different approaches: a spatially oriented app…
Guiding principles in transformation processes of coal phase-out. The German case of Lusatia
Everything All Right at the Internal EU Borders? The Ambivalent Effects of Cross-Border Integration and the Rise of Euroscepticism
The policy of the European Union, which promotes a vision of Europe without borders and has fostered the development of cooperation across borders over 25 years, has led, in some parts of Europe, to the emergence of so-called integrated cross-border regions. Thus far, the increase of cross-border flows and interactions has always been a normative and almost unquestioned policy paradigm. However, tendencies of re-bordering and signs of growing Eur…
Strategies for energy transition and regional development in European post-coal mining regions
To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, Czechia and Germany have created framework conditions to phase out lignite while developing the coal regions into pioneers of sustainability transformation. These clean energy transitions are associated with a wide range of threats and opportunities, including employment and identity issues. Based on two European case studies – the Ústí Region in Czechia and Lusatia in Germany – we investigate regional devel…
Regional design for post-mining transformation
This article reports on an attempt to implement regional design in a decarbonization transition in Lusatia, one of Germany’s lignite regions. As visioning tools, regional designs have great potential for application in coal-regions facing sustainability transitions. Through the implementation of the Lusatia 2050 Planning Lab, we find that the politically induced nature of the present transition, combined with regional factors, such its cross-bord…
In-migration for transforming peripheral locations through a real-world experiment? Experiment insights on location decisions in the medium-sized city of Görlitz, Germany
A real-world experiment was implemented in the city of Görlitz to gain knowledge about the requirements for, and the opportunities of, in-migration to revitalize urban areas and increase local capacities for sustainability transformation.Many cities, in particular those in peripheral locations, are dependent on in-migration to compensate for the negative population development often experienced due to demographic and economic change. In addition,…
Local policy-making within the multilevel system
Our motivation for undertaking this research was to verify the scope and results of public policies aimed at supporting peripheralised medium-sized cities, and to check how these policies have been perceived by stakeholders within these cities. We selected the Polish-German borderland as a case region for this, primarily due to a particular concentration of cities experiencing the detrimental effects of socio-economic transformation. These are al…
Heritage in a Circular Economy
The building industry is one of the most resource‐intensive sectors globally, accounting for significant environmental impacts through material extraction, processing, and waste generation. In the quest to mitigate climate change and preserve natural resources, the integration of circular economy (CE) principles into various sectors, including heritage conservation (HC), has gained notable attention. The CE framework corresponds with the general …
Negotiating Possibilities in Shrinking Cities
Dominant narratives of urban success continue to privilege growth and acceleration. Within this framework, shrinking cities are frequently labelled as left‐behind, lagging, or peripheralized places. Such stigmatizing interpretations not only obscure the structural conditions of urban shrinkage but may also foster a perceived loss of agency and subsequently constrain local capacities to envision and actively shape alternative urban futures. This t…
Political science (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (6 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Local Governance and Planning (5 works) · Regional science (5 works)