Staff

Christian Binz

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Dr. Christian Binz

Group Leader, Cluster: Cirus

Department Environmental Social Sciences

About Me

Christian is a group leader in the cluster Sustainable Transitions and Business Innovations (CIRUS) at the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at Eawag, an Associate Post-Doctoral Researcher at CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden, and a guest lecturer at the University of Zurich.

He received his PhD in Economic Geography from the University of Bern in 2012. Christian is a recipient of the Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Sustainability Science (2015) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and has worked as a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Lund University (Sweden), UC Berkeley (USA), Tsinghua University (China) and Eawag.

His main research interests are centered on transformative innovation in the water, energy, transport and construction sectors. By combining recent insights from transition studies, economic geography and institutional sociology, he aims to explore how multi-scalar institutional arrangements condition the emergence of new clean-tech industries and broader transformations toward sustainable development. He has extensive experience in working in interdisciplinary research projects and has covered green innovation and transition processes in both developed (EU, US, Switzerland) and emerging economies (China, India).

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Projects

GLORIWA assesses path dependencies in urban water management by analyzing the global actor structures and institutional rationalities that stabilize the current dominant design
The BARRIERS project aims at improving our understanding of the institutional barriers for radical innovation in UWM. It analyzes ‘lighthouse cities’ that experiment with non-grid UWM systems
The Lighthouse Project focuses on visible examples of onsite and decentralised urban water management systems, which will play a key role in enabling sustainability transitions.
Wings is an inter- and transdisciplinary strategic research program that strives to develop novel non-grid-connected water and sanitation systems that can function as comparable alternatives to network-based systems.
WaterReuseLab aims at analyzing how a new generation of decentralized water reuse systems could be developed in Bengaluru, India
Effiziente technische Kreisläufe analysiert den möglichen künftigen Übergang des Bausektors zu nachhaltigeren Techniken, Materialien, Methoden und Verfahren

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Publications

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Afghani, N., Schelbert, V., Lüthi, C., & Binz, C. (2023). On-site water reuse systems in San Francisco, United States. Lighthouse synthesis report. Dübendorf: Eawag. , Institutional Repository
Gong, H., Yu, Z., Binz, C., & Truffer, B. (2023). Beating the casino: conceptualizing an anchoring-based third route to regional development. Economic Geography. doi:10.1080/00130095.2023.2276474, Institutional Repository
Gong, H., & Binz, C. (2023). Cumulative causation in regional industrial path development - a conceptual framework and case study in the videogame industry of Hamburg and Shanghai. Geoforum, 141, 103729 (13 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103729, Institutional Repository
Hacker, M. E., & Binz, C. (2023). Hybrid governance arrangements for urban infrastructure transitions: comparing the adoption of onsite water reuse in San Francisco and New York City. ACS ES&T Water, 3, 3916-3928. doi:10.1021/acsestwater.3c00327, Institutional Repository
Janz, J., Binz, C., Fischer, M., & Hänggli, A. (2023). Paradigmenwechsel im Gewässerschutz. Illustriert durch die Wasser-Timeline der Schweiz. Aqua & Gas, 103(1), 64-68. , Institutional Repository
Lesch, D., Miörner, J., & Binz, C. (2023). The role of global actors in sustainability transitions – tracing the emergence of a novel infrastructure paradigm in the sanitation sector. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 49, 100787 (22 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.eist.2023.100787, Institutional Repository
Miörner, J., Schelbert, V., Lüthi, C., & Binz, C. (2023). On-site water reuse systems in Bengaluru, India. Lighthouse synthesis report. Dübendorf: Eawag. , Institutional Repository
Pakizer, K., Lieberherr, E., Farrelly, M., Bach, P. M., Saurí, D., March, H., … Binz, C. (2023). Policy sequencing for early-stage transition dynamics - a process model and comparative case study in the water sector. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 48, 100730 (20 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.eist.2023.100730, Institutional Repository
Schelbert, V., Lüthi, C., Binz, C., & Miörner, J. (2023). "Tre-Rör-Ut" in Helsingborg, Sweden. Lighthouse synthesis report. Dübendorf: Eawag. , Institutional Repository
Schelbert, V., Lüthi, C., & Binz, C. (2023). Hamburg water cycle in the Jenfelder Au, Hamburg, Germany. Lighthouse synthesis report. Dübendorf: Eawag. , Institutional Repository
Schelbert, V., Binz, C., & Lüthi, C. (2023). Lighthouse initiatives in the urban water & sanitation sector. Dübendorf: Eawag. , Institutional Repository
Schelbert, V., Lüthi, C., Binz, C., & Mitra, A. (2023). On-site water reuse systems in Nirvana County, Gurugram, India. Lighthouse synthesis report. Dübendorf: Eawag. , Institutional Repository
Wagner, T. R., Nelson, K. L., Binz, C., & Hacker, M. E. (2023). Actor roles and networks in implementing urban water innovation: a study of onsite water reuse in the San Francisco Bay Area. Environmental Science and Technology, 57(15), 6205-6215. doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c05231, Institutional Repository
Gong, H., Binz, C., Hassink, R., & Trippl, M. (2022). Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency. Regional Studies, 56(4), 523-535. doi:10.1080/00343404.2022.2033199, Institutional Repository
Heiberg, J., Truffer, B., & Binz, C. (2022). Assessing transitions through socio-technical configuration analysis – a methodological framework and a case study in the water sector. Research Policy, 51(1), 104363 (19 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.respol.2021.104363, Institutional Repository
Miörner, J., Truffer, B., Binz, C., Heiberg, J., & Yap, X. S. (2022). Guidebook for applying the Socio-Technical Configuration Analysis method (GEIST working paper series, Report No.: 2022(01). sine loco: GEIST - Geography of innovation and sustainability transitions. , Institutional Repository
Miörner, J., Heiberg, J., & Binz, C. (2022). How global regimes diffuse in space - Explaining a missed transition in San Diego's water sector. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 44, 29-47. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2022.05.005, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., & Gong, H. (2021). Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries. Regional Studies, 56(4), 605-618. doi:10.1080/00343404.2020.1861238, Institutional Repository
Hacker, M. E., & Binz, C. (2021). Institutional barriers to on-site alternative water systems: a conceptual framework and systematic analysis of the literature. Environmental Science and Technology, 55(12), 8267-8277. doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c07947, Institutional Repository
Hacker, M. E., & Binz, C. (2021). Navigating institutional complexity in socio-technical transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 40, 367-381. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2021.09.003, Institutional Repository
Larsen, T. A., Gruendl, H., & Binz, C. (2021). The potential contribution of urine source separation to the SDG agenda - a review of the progress so far and future development options. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 7(7), 1161-1176. doi:10.1039/D0EW01064B, Institutional Repository
Miörner, J., & Binz, C. (2021). Towards a multi-scalar perspective on transition trajectories. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 40, 172-188. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2021.06.004, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., Gosens, J., Yap, X. S., & Yu, Z. (2020). Catch-up dynamics in early industry lifecycle stages - a typology and comparative case studies in four clean-tech industries. Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(5), 1257-1275. doi:10.1093/icc/dtaa020, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., Coenen, L., Murphy, J. T., & Truffer, B. (2020). Geographies of transition - from topical concerns to theoretical engagement: a commentary on the transitions research agenda. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 1-3. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2019.11.002, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., & Truffer, B. (2020). The governance of global innovation systems: putting knowledge in context. In J. Glückler, G. Herrigel, & M. Handke (Eds.), Knowledge and space: Vol. 15. Knowledge for governance (pp. 397-414). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47150-7_17, Institutional Repository
Gosens, J., Binz, C., & Lema, R. (2020). China's role in the next phase of the energy transition: contributions to global niche formation in the Concentrated Solar Power sector. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 61-75. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2019.12.004, Institutional Repository
Heiberg, J., Binz, C., & Truffer, B. (2020). The Geography of technology legitimation: how multiscalar institutional dynamics matter for path creation in emerging industries. Economic Geography, 96(5), 470-498. doi:10.1080/00130095.2020.1842189, Institutional Repository
Hipp, A., & Binz, C. (2020). Firm survival in complex value chains and global innovation systems: evidence from solar photovoltaics. Research Policy, 49(1), 103876 (16 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.respol.2019.103876, Institutional Repository
Hoffmann, S., Feldmann, U., Bach, P. M., Binz, C., Farrelly, M., Frantzeskaki, N., … Udert, K. M. (2020). A research agenda for the future of urban water management: exploring the potential of non-grid, small-grid, and hybrid solutions. Environmental Science and Technology, 54(9), 5312-5322. doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b05222, Institutional Repository
Gebauer, H., & Binz, C. (2019). Regional benefits of servitization processes: evidence from the wind-to-energy industry. Regional Studies, 53(3), 366-375. doi:10.1080/00343404.2018.1479523, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., Razavian, N. B., & Kiparsky, M. (2018). Of dreamliners and drinking water: developing risk regulation and a safety culture for direct potable reuse. Water Resources Management, 32(2), 511-525. doi:10.1007/s11269-017-1824-1, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., & Anadon, L. D. (2018). Unrelated diversification in latecomer contexts - the emergence of the Chinese solar photovoltaics industry. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 28, 14-34. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2018.03.005, Institutional Repository
Fuenfschilling, L., & Binz, C. (2018). Global socio-technical regimes. Research Policy, 47(4), 735-749. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2018.02.003, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., & Truffer, B. (2017). Anchoring global networks in urban niches. How on-site water recycling emerged in three chinese cities. In N. Frantzeskaki, V. Castán Broto, L. Coenen, & D. Loorbach (Eds.), Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions: Vol. 5. Urban Sustainability Transitions (pp. 23-36). doi:10.4324/9781315228389, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., & Truffer, B. (2017). Global innovation systems - a conceptual framework for innovation dynamics in transnational contexts. Research Policy, 46(7), 1284-1298. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2017.05.012, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., Gosens, J., Hansen, T., & Hansen, U. E. (2017). Toward technology-sensitive catching-up policies: insights from renewable energy in China. World Development, 96, 418-437. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.03.027, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., Truffer, B., & Coenen, L. (2016). Path creation as a process of resource alignment and anchoring: industry formation for on-site water recycling in Beijing. Economic Geography, 92(2), 172-200. doi:10.1080/00130095.2015.1103177, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., Harris-Lovett, S., Kiparsky, M., Sedlak, D. L., & Truffer, B. (2016). The thorny road to technology legitimation — Institutional work for potable water reuse in California. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 103, 249-263. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2015.10.005, Institutional Repository
Kiparsky, M., Thompson Jr., B. H., Binz, C., Sedlak, D. L., Tummers, L., & Truffer, B. (2016). Barriers to innovation in urban wastewater utilities: attitudes of managers in California. Environmental Management, 57(6), 1204-1216. doi:10.1007/s00267-016-0685-3, Institutional Repository
Harris-Lovett, S. R., Binz, C., Sedlak, D. L., Kiparsky, M., & Truffer, B. (2015). Beyond user acceptance: a legitimacy framework for potable water reuse in California. Environmental Science and Technology, 49(13), 7552-7561. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b00504, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., Truffer, B., & Coenen, L. (2014). Why space matters in technological innovation systems-mapping global knowledge dynamics of membrane bioreactor technology. Research Policy, 43(1), 138-155. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2013.07.002, Institutional Repository
Li, L., Binz, C., Lu, Y., Truffer, B., & Shi, Y. (2013). Institutional trajectory for diffusing on-site wastewater treatment in urban China. Water Science and Technology, 68(5), 1180-1187. doi:10.2166/wst.2013.328, Institutional Repository
Truffer, B., Binz, C., Gebauer, H., & Störmer, E. (2013). Market success of on-site treatment: a systemic innovation problem. In T. A. Larsen, K. M. Udert, & J. Lienert (Eds.), Source separation and decentralization for wastewater management (pp. 209-223). London: IWA Publishing. , Institutional Repository
Binz, C., Truffer, B., Li, L., Shi, Y., & Lu, Y. (2012). Conceptualizing leapfrogging with spatially coupled innovation systems: the case of onsite wastewater treatment in China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 79(1), 155-171. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2011.08.016, Institutional Repository
Gebauer, H., Truffer, B., Binz, C., & Störmer, E. (2012). Capability perspective on business network formation. Empirical evidence from the wastewater treatment industry. European Business Review, 24(2), 169-190. doi:10.1108/09555341211204026, Institutional Repository
Binz, C., & Truffer, B. (2011). Technological innovation systems in multi-scalar space. Analyzing an emerging water recycling industry with social network analysis. Geographica Helvetica, 66(4), 254-260. doi:10.5194/gh-66-254-2011, Institutional Repository
Störmer, E., Binz, C., & Truffer, B. (2010). Globale Herausforderung für die Siedlungswasserwirtschaft. Ein Roadmapping für dezentrale Wassertechnologien im Jahr 2020. Technikfolgenabschätzung: Theorie und Praxis, 19(1), 40-48. Retrieved from http://www.tatup-journal.de/tatup101_stua10a.php, Institutional Repository

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Address

E-Mail: christian.binz@eawag.ch
Phone: +41 58 765 5030
Fax: +41 58 765 5802
Address: Eawag
Überlandstrasse 133
8600 Dübendorf
Office: FC E11

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Expert on

decentralized systems, innovation, global change, sustainable transitions, urban water management

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Focalpoints

  • Clean-tech innovation
  • Globalization
  • Institutions
  • Sustainability Transitions
  • China

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