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变革问题的研究，并提出国际人类层面（全球环境变化）方案（IHDP）信息技术科学计划的计划和优先事项；将为该方案确定和分配区域和全球研究“核心”项目的优先次序；并将确定来自北美的科学家对此类项目的潜在贡献。将向IHDP-IT科学规划委员会编写一份报告，该委员会将把这一投入与从其他区域讲习班收到的投入结合成工作文件，供1999年IHDP-IT国际科学会议审议和采取行动。要处理的研究领域包括：空间和时间上的模式，商品和服务的生产和消费的组织和技术，它们的物质和能源转变和有关的环境影响，以及这些影响对社会和经济的后果。目标是增进对人的动力和机制的了解，使工业系统能够在适当的技术、经济和体制限制内使生产和消费与资源枯竭和环境退化脱钩。

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.