A North American Regional Workshop on the Industrial Transformation Programme of the International Human Dimensions (of Global Environmental Change) Programme (IHDP)

讲习班：将审查最近和目前关于工业转型问题的研究，并提出国际（全球环境变化）人文因素方案信息技术科学计划的计划和优先事项;将确定方案的区域和全球研究“核心”项目并为其分配优先事项;并将确定北美科学家对这些项目的潜在贡献。将编写一份报告提交IHDP-IT科学规划委员会，该委员会将把这一投入与其他区域讲习班收到的投入联合收割机合并为工作文件，供1999年IHDP-IT国际科学会议审议和采取行动。研究领域包括：空间和时间的格局、货物和服务的生产和消费的组织和技术、其材料和能源的转变及其相关的环境影响，以及这些影响对社会和经济的后果。目标是提高对人类动力和机制的认识，使工业系统能够在适当的技术、经济和体制限度内实现转型，使生产和消费不受资源枯竭和环境退化的影响。

A workshop: will review recent and current research regarding industrial transformation (IT) issues and present plans and priorities of the IT science plan of the International Human Dimensions (of Global Environmental Change) Programme (IHDP); will identify and assign priorities to regional and global research `core` projects for the programme; and will identify potential contributions to such projects by scientists from North America. A report will be prepared to the IHDP-IT Scientific Planning Committee which will, in turn, combine this input with those received from other regional workshops into working documents for consideration and action by an international IHDP-IT scientific conference in 1999. Areas of research to be addressed include: patterns over space and time, the organization and the technology of the production and consumption of goods and services, their material and energy transformations and associated environmental impacts, and the consequences of these impacts for societies and economies. Goals are to improve understanding of human drives and mechanisms that could enable transformation of industrial systems which decouples production and consumption from resource depletion and environmental degradation within appropriate technological, economic and institutional limits.