Industrial Transformation Project

The IT Project is an international, multi-disciplinary research initiative aimed at understanding complex society-environment interactions; identifying driving forces for change; and exploring development trajectories that have a significantly smaller burden on the environment on a global scale. IT research is based on the assumption that important changes in production and consumption systems will be required in order to meet the needs and aspirations of a growing world population while using environmental resources in a sustainable manner.

Through its five key research foci on energy and material flows, food, cities, information and communication, and governance and transformation processes, IT research aims at building on the foundations of different disciplinary research approaches in the social, technical and natural sciences.

For more information on the IT Project please visit their website: www.ihdp-it.org

Project Goals IT strives to improve the understanding of the ways in which societies could combine economic and social development with the reduction of pressure on the environment. IT focuses on the processes of change in systems of provision relevant to global environmental change. IT strive to understand how broad-scale changes in systems occur and may be influenced over the long-term future. IT is studying the developments in rapidly industrializing and urbanizing Asia to determine whether more environmentally-efficient development pathways may be possible.

Science Plan: Industrial Transformation Visit Online Version Edited by Pier Vellinga and Nadia Herd, 1999.

Project Website

www.ihdp-it.org

Industrial
Transformation

International
Project Office
Institute of
Environmental
Studies
Vrije Universiteit
De Boelelaan
1087
1081 HV
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 20 5989504
F: +31 20 5989553

Chair of the
Scientific
Steering
Committee

Prof. Dr. Frans
Berkhout
Director, Institute
for Environmental
Studies
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Frans.Berkhout
@ivm.vu.nl

Executive Officer

Anna.J. Wieczorek
Anna.Wieczorek
@ivm.vu.nl