Volume 3 | Issue 2 | Fall 2007

About the Author

Derk Loorbach is a senior researcher and consultant at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (Drift) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he received his PhD in June 2007. Drift is a pioneering interdisciplinary institute that combines cutting edge research with close cooperation with policy and business to further sustainable development in practice. Central theme in Derk’s research is the development of the transition management approach as a new governance-model based on complex systems’ thinking, governance theories and sociology. It is aimed at facilitating and directing processes of societal change in the direction of sustainability through transition arena’s and experiments. Derk is currently involved in various transition arenas, innovation programs and envisioning practices; as researcher, consultant and participant. His research is seen as example of ‘sustainability science’, combining fundamental with action research to contribute to sustainable development in practice. He can be contacted at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Room M5-45, P.O. Box 616, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands (email: loorbach@fsw.eur.nl).