Transformation Network
The Transformation Network (TN) aims to build resilient communities and ecosystems throughout the Intermountain Western United States.
The TN represents a partnership between eight Western U.S. universities with over 100 partner organizations representing Indigenous partners, governmental and non-governmental organizations, public utilities, conservation districts, irrigation districts, and municipalities.
Featured Project
Guiding Transformation Towards Community Wellbeing in High Amenity Rural Places
Many communities in the Intermountain West have experienced population growth and increases in tourism due to their close proximity to desirable natural amenities, such as mountains and public lands. In this article, Alex Theophilus discusses how we can better understand community wellbeing in high amenity places and how research may help yield guided transformations.
Core Research Themes
The TN team is advancing understanding of resilient headwaters, food-energy-water systems, and innovative governance models and institutions over a range of scales and domains.
Resilient Headwaters
The communities, ecosystems, and farmers of the IMW are heavily dependent on shrinking water supplies from mountain headwater systems. The TN is connecting innovators of the landscape management solutions that are required to reduce wildfire risks and cope with water shortages.
Food-Energy-Water Systems
Food-Energy-Water Systems (FEWS) are deeply intertwined in global food production, supply chains, and water and energy management. The TN is investigating transformative capacity across scales from local communities to the entire IMW region.
Innovative Governance and Institutions
The TN is focused on innovating ways to broaden participation through integrating science and new collective responses into governance systems and institutions at the local and regional scales.