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  Industrial Transformation (IT) project has the challenging goal of improving the
understanding of the ways in which society could combine economic and
social development with the reduction of pressure on the environment.
The scientific agenda of the IHDP IT has been built around a number of
research questions in the fields of: energy and material flows; food;
cities with focus of water and transportation; information and
communication; governance and transformation processes.Industrial
Transformation research starts with the notion that changes in
technologies, put differently, changes in the ways in which humans use
environmental resources and services are embedded in the
socio-economic realm and modify the natural environment. This embraces
processes and products, production and consumption chains and
distribution and disposal activities. IT research is also interested in
the institutions and incentives that shape these systems (i.e.
property, liability, regulations), and how these situate and influence
social actors (government, producers, and consumers). In thinking about
how these systems might change, IT is concerned with the interaction of
innovation by economic and social actors with processes of change at a
higher level in socio-technical systems of provision (energy systems,
mobility systems, food and nutrition systems and so on). IT is
interested not only in identifying alternatives, but also in seeking to
understand how broad-scale change in systems that are relevant for
global environment may occur and be influenced over the longer-term
future (Olsthoorn and Wieczorek, 2006).IT seeks to integrate
and stimulate co-operation among international and interdisciplinary
scientists by establishing both a research framework and a network
which can be useful for exchanging information and identifying priority
research questions. |
IHDP Core Project Currently in Synthesis Phase
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