Publications

Barlow N., Schulken M., Plank C. (2024). 6 How and Who? The Debate About a Strategy for Degrowth. De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth (pp. 109-128). De Gruyter. doi.org/10.1515/9783110778359&nbsp

Barlow N., Regen L., Cadiou N., Chertkovskaya, K., Hollweg M., Plank C., Schulken M., Wolf V. (2022). Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation. Mayflybooks/Ephemera.

Blaas F., Stotten R. (2025). Ernährung als Ausdruck sozialer Position. Soziale Welt, (3), doi:10.5771/0038-6073-2025-3-285 

Blaas F. (2024). Über Distinktionspraktiken beim Konsum von Lebensmitteln aus alternativen Lebensmittelsystemen. Masterarbeit. Universität Wien.

Brunner A., Dorn F., Hafner R., Arancio Sidoti D. (2026). What happened to agroecology? Tracing Actors’ (Power) relations and the seeming dissipation of transition dynamics in Argentina’s Río Negro Valley. Geoforum, doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104475 

Brunner A. (2026). When agrarian imaginaries touch uncertain grounds: moving beyond paradigms in agroecological farmers’ visions of a desirable future in the Valle Inferior del Río Negro, Argentina. Agriculture and Human Values, (2), doi: 10.1007/s10460-026-10863-z 

Brunner A. (2022). The missing pieces to food system´s socio ecological transformation? Community-supported agriculture in Argentina. Master thesis. University of Graz. 

Chesi V. (2025). Sozial-ökologische Transformation in der Landwirtschaft am Fallbeispiel eines Familienhofs in der Schweiz. Masterarbeit. Universität Innsbruck.

Dengler C., Plank C. (2024). Foregrounding invisible foundations: (eco-)feminist perspectives on provisioning systems. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, (1), doi: 10.1080/15487733.2024.2312667 

Dorn F., Hafner R., Plank C. (2022). Towards a climate change consensus: How mining and agriculture legitimize green extractivism in Argentina. The Extractive Industries and Society, doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2022.101130 

Dorn F., Hafner R. (2023). Territorio, territorialidad y territorialización en las redes de producción globales Territorio, territorialidad y territorialización en las redes de producción globales. Población & Sociedad, (1), doi: 10.19137/pys-2023-300102 

Dorn F., Pachoud C., Jurado E. (2025). Countering agribusiness: analyzing the potentials for agroecology in Mendoza’s Valle de Uco through a territorial perspective. The Journal of Peasant Studies, doi: 10.1080/03066150.2025.2551702 

Faltmann N., Stotten R. (2025). What are the ‘Values’ in alternative food systems? A systematic review. Agriculture and Human Values, (3), doi: 10.1007/s10460-025-10756-7

Feurstein J. (2025). Wasser in der Schweiz: Eine Fallstudie zu Konfliktpotentialen und Synergiedynamiken.Masterarbeit. Universität Innsbruck.

Froning P., Stotten R. (2024). Shaping territorial agri-food systems through social innovations: The example of Valposchiavo, Switzerland. Rivista di Economic Agraria, (1), doi: 10.36253/rea-14833 

Froning P., Stotten R. (2026). The Role of Social Capital in Mountain Dairy Systems: Two Examples From Grisons, Switzerland. Sociologia Ruralis, (2), doi: 10.1111/soru.70033

Froning P. (2023). Territorial rural development strategies based on organic agriculture: a case study from Valposchiavo, Switzerland. Master thesis. University of Innsbruck.

Hafner R. (2022). Viszerale Methoden. Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien. Schlüsselkonzepte, Beziehungen und Methodiken (pp. 297-316). Franz Steiner Verlag. 

Nováčková V., Pixová M., Plank C. (2026). Community-supported agriculture in Czechia: Value-based embeddedness and contradictions in the current food regime. Geoforum, doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104521 

Nováčková V. (2024). The role of community-supported agriculture in transforming the third food regime in the Czech Republic. Master thesis. BOKU University.

Penker M., Brunner K., Plank C. (2023). Kapitel 5. Ernährung. APCC Special Report: Strukturen für ein klimafreundliches Leben (pp. 245-269). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 

Pixová M, Plank C. (2022). Relocalizing food production in times of crisis: Urban governance in Prague and Brno. AESOP–Sustainable food planning conference proceedings. 

Pixová M., Plank C. (2024). Urban food governance without local food: missing links between Czech post-socialist cities and urban food alternatives. Agriculture and Human Values, (4), doi: 10.1007/s10460-024-10567-2 

Pixová M., Spanier J., Guerrero Lara L., Smessaert J., Sandwell K., Strenchock L., Lehner I., Feist J., Reichelt L., Plank C. (2024). Building solidarities and alliances between degrowth and food sovereignty movements. Journal of Political Ecology, (1), doi: 10.2458/jpe.5841 

Pixová M., Plank C. (2025). Quiet right to the city: contributing to urban sustainability by converging allotment and community gardens. Environmental Sociology, (4), doi: 10.1080/23251042.2025.2512599

Plank C., Penker M., Brunner KM. (2021). Strukturen für ein klimafreundliches Leben: Handlungsfeld Ernährung. Österreichische Gesellschaft für Agrarökonomie, Strategien für den Agrar- und Ernährungssektor und den ländlichen Raum in Zeiten multipler Krisen. 

Plank C., Penker M., Brunner KM. (2021). Ernährung klimasozial gestalten. Klimasoziale Politik. Eine gerechte und emissionsfreie Gesellschaft gestalten (pp. 143-151). bahoe books. 

Plank C., Hafner R., Stotten R. (2021). Wertebasierte Produktions- und Konsumweisen im WTO-zentrierten Nahrungsregime. Fragestellungen eines Zukunftskolleg-Projekts. Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes 17 (pp. 185-194). 

Plank C., Görg C., Kalt G., Kaufmann L., Dullinger S., Krausmann F. (2023). “Biomass from somewhere?” Governing the spatial mismatch of Viennese biomass consumption and its impact on biodiversity. Land Use Policy, doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106693 

Plank C., Stotten R., Hafner R. (2024). Values-based modes of production and consumption: analyzing how food alternatives transform the current food regime. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1266145 

Plank C., Pixová M. (2026). State politics and food alternatives in the post-socialist food regime in Czechia. Journal of Rural Studies, doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103972 

Plank C. (2022). An overview of strategies for social-ecological transformation in the field of food. In Barlow N., Regen L., Cadiou N., Chertkovskaya E., Hollweg M., Plank C., Schulken M., Wolf V. (Ed.), Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation (pp. 200-210). Mayfly Books. 

Plank C. (2023). Strategien für eine Ernährungswende. Sozialwissenschaftliche Rundschau, 63(1), pp. 6-14. 

Schulken M., Barlow N., Cadiou N., Chertkovskaya K., Hollweg M., Plank C., Regen L., Wolf V. (2022). How to strategies within degrowth? Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation (pp. 9-34). 

Steinegger S., Faltmann N. (2025). Proximity despite distance? A community-supported agriculture initiative across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland. Journal of Political Ecology, (1), doi: 10.2458/jpe.5944 

Stotten R., Froning P. (2023). Territorial rural development strategies based on organic agriculture: the example of Valposchiavo, Switzerland. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1182993 

Stotten R., Brunner A., Faltmann N., Froning P., Pixová M., Plank C. (2025). Values of “alternative food initiatives” as expressions of “embeddedness”. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 31(2), pp. 173 - 210. doi: 10.48416/ijsaf.v31i2.677 

Stotten R. (2024). Heterogeneity and agency in the contemporary food regime in Switzerland: among the food from nowhere, somewhere, and here sub-regimes. Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies, 105(2-3), pp. 251-274. doi: 10.1007/s41130-024-00207-y 

van den Berg TM. (2025). Conflicts within the corporate-environmental food regime, organic agriculture and the bio-region Tišnov. Master thesis. BOKU University

Zambra C., Linayao J., Bigeard F., Charret J., Frattini C., Kurki H., Lecot E., Massar R., Müller M., Plank C. (2026). The EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy: a historical-materialist policy analysis of its contested implementation in Austria. Critical Policy Studies, doi: 10.1080/19460171.2026.2647929

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