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The Industrial Transformation Project

IHDP. The Industrial Transformation Project. c/o Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1087 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands. What are "Human Dimensions"?.

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The Industrial Transformation Project

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  1. IHDP The Industrial Transformation Project c/o Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1087 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands

  2. What are "Human Dimensions"? • Human Dimensions of GEC comprise the causes and consequences of people's individual and collective actions, including the changes which: • lead to modifications of the earth's physical and biological systems and • affect the human quality of life and sustainable development in different parts of the world.

  3. START IHDP & Other GEC Programmes IHDP ISSC ICSU LUCC WCRP IGBP Carbon Food Water GCTE DIVERSITAS

  4. START IHDP Structure ICSU ISSC Scientific Advisory Council Scientific Committee Adhering Bodies Secretariat National Committees (32) Joint Activities / Framework Activities Science Projects (4) Sponsoring Agency Body of the IHDP Jointly implemented with IGBP Jointly implemented with WCRP is represented in control and/or advice cooperation ICSU Secr. GECHS IDGEC IT LUCC

  5. Perspective Economic growth is: Policy suggestions are: Radical Good for the environment because To stimulate growth and supporter required for R&D and dynamic to assure the free processes functioning of markets Conditional Good for the environment because To stimulate growth supporter required for funding environmental while simultaneously policy implementing environmental policy Weak Harmful to the environment because To implement antagonist of physical output growth environmental policies that may reduce growth in dirty sectors of the economy Strong Harmful to the environment because To reduce or to abolish antagonist of physical output growth economic growth Impacts of economic growth on environmental quality

  6. Carbon cycle Nitrogen cycle Biodiversity loss Water cycle Alternative Pathways for the Relation between Economic Growth and Resource Use Resource use Material consumption Environmental Pressure GDP (time)

  7. Local Average Income Levels and Environmental Quality • Household sanitation/health • Water pollution/ health • Air contamination/health • Restoration time: 5-20 years

  8. Regional Average Income Levels and Environmental Quality • River catchments scale • Quality and quantity of water • Ecosystems acidification/eutrophication • Restoration time: 10-50 years or more

  9. Global Average Income Levels and Environmental Quality • Climate change • Loss of species and habitats • Restoration time: 50-500 years and more

  10. Reactive End-of-pipes Specialists Minimisation Receptive Process Managers Optimisation Constructive Product Sector Acceleration Pro-active Systems Society Vision Development Stages in Corporate and Societal Response Response Phase Focus of Attention Main Actors Driving Philosophy

  11. Transformation through reinforcing change at three levels Macro (Landscape) Meso (Regimes) Micro (Niches) time

  12. Energy and Material Flows Food Cities (Focus on Transportation and Water) Information and Communication Governance and Transformation Processes Research Foci and Framework for Industrial Transformation Industrial Transformation Research

  13. Governments/ UN system Visions on science, technology, societal preferences and investment opportunities International corporations Civil society / consumers Actors in Safe-Guarding the Global Environment

  14. Societal Responses to the Issue of Environment

  15. INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY/OUTPUT SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY TRANSFORMATION Industrial Transformation Industrial Transformation goes beyond the notion of process efficiency and ‘green’ products, and beyond the domain of single sectors. It is about systems and systems change including production, consumption and incentive structure that shapes the interaction between the two.

  16. Overarching goal of the IT research To explore pathways towards de-coupling of the economic growth from the related degradation of the environment

  17. IT research requires • a better understanding of the complex society-environment interactions • exploration of development trajectories that have a significantly smaller burden on the environment • understanding of how transformation processes can be organised in terms of incentive structures, production systems and consumption systems

  18. Framework for the IT Research

  19. Industrial Transformation Research... focuses on systems and system changes that are relevant in view of the global environment deals with the relationship between societal, technological, and environmental change relates producer and consumer perspective including the incentives and institutions that help shaping these perspectives is international in scope

  20. Energy and Material Flows Investigating optimal recycling strategies in view of ongoing technological, economic, and geographical development Exploring a future driven by renewable energy

  21. Energy and Material FlowsKey Research Questions

  22. Energy and Material Flows- Priority research examples - • Transport based on bio-fuels. • Transformation of energy system - economic theories. • A hydrogen economy with CO2 underground storage.

  23. Food Only a small proportion of production energy occurs at the farm level; the major categories of post-agricultural energy use are processing, storage, distribution and transportation, and cooking and waste.

  24. FoodKey Research Questions

  25. Food- Priority research examples - • Shift from animal to plant protein - environmental benefits, social desirability and technical feasibility. • Organic farming - feasibility and implications for developing countries. • Regional versus global food systems.

  26. The Food Consumption and Production System

  27. Cities What are the options for urban transport in Megacities of developing countries? What would be the implications of privatization of the water sector?

  28. Cities (Focus on Transportation and Water)Key Research Questions

  29. Cities (focus on water and transport) - Priority research examples - • Comparative studies of cities. • Options for decoupling urban activities from interference with carbon and water cycles. • Cities as complex systems – biocomplexity analysis.

  30. Industrial Transformation in Industrialised Cities Comparative Studies on Environmental Impact per Case Study Cities Unit of Human Wellbeing Industrial Transformation in Industrialising Cities Negative Applicability of -Environmental Kuznets Curve -Leap-frogging Assumption Sustainable Development of Cities Time (or Human Wellbeing) Source: Cities Working Group, Industrial Transformation Open Science Meeting, 1999.

  31. Cities and the Hydrological Cycle

  32. Information and Communication Images of lifestyle –transmitted over the information highway or painted on recycled oil barrels Will there still be waste in an information society?

  33. Information and CommunicationKey Research Questions

  34. Information & Communication- Priority research examples - • ICT effects on lifestyle and environmental resource use. • ICT organizers and their role in global environmental change

  35. Governance and Transformation Processes What is the future role of the state?

  36. Governance and Transformation ProcessesKey Research Questions

  37. Governance & Transformation Processes- Priority research examples - • Corporate strategies towards green, low-budget products in developing countries. • Socially Responsible Investments - mechanism for transformation of capital markets towards sustainability. • Co-evolution of society-nature interactions.

  38. Scientific Steering Committee Prof. Dr. Pier Vellinga (Chair) The Netherlands Dr. Titus Adeboye Kenya Prof. dr. Marina Fischer-Kowalski Austria Prof. dr. Ken Green United Kingdom Prof. dr. Stuart Hart United States Prof. dr. Hidefumi Imura Japan Dr. Nina Poussenkova Russia Prof. dr. Richard Rockwell United States Dr. Leena Srivastava India Dr. Luis Vieira Brazil

  39. c/o Institute for Environmental Studies(IVM) Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1087 1081 HV Amsterdam Tel: +31 (20) 444-9504 Fax: +31 (20) 444-9553 Email: Anna.J.Wieczorek@ivm.vu.nl The International Project Office Prof. Dr. Pier Vellinga (Chair) Ms. Anna J. Wieczorek (Co-ordinator) Mr. Thomas R.H. Holmes (Research Assistant) Ms. Els Hunfeld (Secretary)

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