Benedikt Walker
Research Associate
Research Interests
- Economic and Political Geography of the Hydrogen Economy
- Interdependencies Between the Energy Transition and Urbanization Processes
- Green Location Factors
Personal Information
- 2019–2020 Oxford University, M.Sc. in Nature, Society, and Environmental Governance
- 2016–2019 Humboldt University of Berlin, M.A. in Social Sciences
- 2016–2019 Student Assistant at the German Institute for Urban Studies
- 2013–2016 Free University of Berlin, B.A. in Political Science
- 2012–2013 Free University of Berlin, Law, Completed the foundational studies phase
- Representative of the research staff in the Earth Sciences Division (2022–2023)
- Member of the working groups on International Affairs and Sustainability
- Representative of the research staff on the Appointments Committee for the Chair in Urban Geography and Regional Development
Projects
Governance der deutschen Wasserstoffwirtschaft und die Globalisierung der deutschen Energiewende
Duration:
2023-2026
Project Lead:
Prof. Dr. Britta Klagge
Funding:
DFG
Publications and Academic Presentations
- Kalvelage, L., Walker, B. (2024). Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry. Journal of Economic Geography lbae036. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbae036
- Walker, B. (2024) ‘Energy-Landscape Conflicts and the Politics of Scale Around Photovoltaic Parks in Germany’, in K. Berr, L. Koegst, and O. Kühne (eds) Landscape Conflicts. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, pp. 335–349. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43352-9_18
- Walker, B. (2024) ‘Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space’, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 52, p. 100878. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100878
- Walker, B., Klagge, B. (2024). Infrastructure Bottlenecks as Opportunity for Local Development: The Case of Decentralized Green‐Hydrogen Projects. TESG. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679663
- Klagge, B., Walker, B. (2024). Grüne Wasserstoffwirtschaft in Deutschland und die Wasserstoffpartnerschaft mit Namibia. Geographische Rundschau 4/2024. https://www.westermann.de/anlage/4664024/Gruene-Wasserstoffwirtschaft-in-Deutschland-und-die-Wasserstoffpartnerschaft-mit-Namibia
- Walker, B. (2022). A territorial perspective on urban and regional energy transitions: Shifting power densities in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13120
- Walker, B. (2022): Governance der deutschen Wasserstoffwirtschaft. Standort. DOI:10.1007/s00548-022-00789-z
- Walker, B., Becker, S., Klagge, B. (2021): Die deutsche Stromwende: Rahmenbedingungen und Akteure einer unvollständigen Energiewende. In: Becker, S., Klagge, B., Naumann, M. (Eds.): Energiegeographie: Konzepte und Herausforderungen. Stuttgart: Ulmer. 122-134. https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/10.36198/9783838553207-122-134.
- Scheller, H., Krone, E., Reiß, P., Walter, J., Altenburg, C., Heinbach, K., Rupp, J., Heinecke, S., Walker, B. (2020): Klimaschutz in finanzschwachen Kommunen. Potenziale für Haushaltsentlastungen, lokale Wertschöpfungseffekte sowie alternative Finanzierungsansätze kommunaler Klimaschutzmaßnahmen. Schriftenreihe des IÖW 219/20. LINK
- Schneider, S., Walker, B., Assmann, D. (2019): Regionalwirtschaftliche Auswirkungen der Energiewende. Difu-Sonderveröffentlichung. LINK
- Scheller, H., Walker, B. (2017): Municipal Infrastructure Policies in the Federal Republic In–In Between Growing Disparities and Losing Political Autonomy? European Policy Analysis 3 (2), 343-371. DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1027
- A geographical political economy perspective on the planning of export-oriented green hydrogen projects in Chile and Namibia. AK Energiegeographie. Marburg, 2024.
- Placemaking als Konzept zur Analyse missions-orientierter Innovationssysteme. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie. Frankfurt, 2023.
- Klimaschutz oder Greenwashing? Wasserstoff als Mittel zur Inwertsetzung von CO2-Emissionen. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie. Frankfurt, 2023.
- Urban-Rural Renewable Energy Transition in Germany and South Africa. Webinar of the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S24V7AuOazI, 2023.
- The regional foundations of Germany’s hydrogen industry: prospects and problems of smart specialization in the federated states. Sitzung des AK Industriegeographie, 2022.
- Building and steering the German mission-oriented innovation system for hydrogen technologies. Global Conference of Economic Geography. Dublin, 2022.
- Hydrogen to the rescue? Regime resistance against Renewable energy market integration and its potential to accelerate system integration. AK Energiegeographie, 2022. Innsbruck. 24.06.2022.
- Building and Steering the German Mission-Oriented Innovation System for Hydrogen Technologies. Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG) 2022, 08.06.2022
- Centralized versus decentralized production in the German energy system: Hydrogen as a potential game changer? (together with Britta Klagge) – 2022 Workshop of the Green Economies Research Network in Luxemburg, 24.05.2022
- Wo geht’s denn hier lang? Richtungsweisende Innovationen in missionsorientierten Innovationssystemen. Jahrestreffen des AK Industriegeographie. 26.11.2021.
- Sektorenkoppelung mit Wasserstoff? Konzeptionelle Überlegungen aus geographischer Perspektive. Konferenz #GeoWoche2021, Sitzung des AK Geographische Energieforschung. 08.10.2021
- Daseinsvorsorge im Spiegel von Einkommensungleichheiten: Sozialstaatliche Intervention oder Verstärkung bestehender Disparitäten? Konferenz „Kommunales Infrastrukturmanagement“, TU Berlin, 06.09.2018