Frank C.A. Veraart

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‘The future started yesterday. New technologies need to be embedded in existing systems that resist change. Analysis of the systems developments helps in identifying opportunities for sustainable innovation’

Research profile

Frank Veraart is an Assistant Professor of history of technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. His areas of expertise include Modern and Contemporary History, Environmental Studies, History of Mobility, Spatial Planning and Computing. Frank’s studies focus on how societal developments are influences by technology and choices of actors. Frank researches the historical development of sustainability trade-offs in transnational resource chains. International trade influences well-being and sustainability (social, economic and ecologic) at places of excavation, production and consumption. Frank studies the origins and historical development of the resources chains and its local impacts on sustainability and well-being. 

Frank has been involved in the research Historical Roots of the Dutch Sustainability Challenges, 1850-2010, granted by the Dutch science foundation NWO. In this research sustainable developments in Dutch society are analyzed using quantitative and qualitative analysis. Quantitative monitors and series sketch the sustainability developments. A qualitative analysis is applied to analyze choices of actors in applying biological, mineral and fossil resources.

Academic background

Frank Veraart received his PhD in History of Technology from TU/e in 2008, At this time, he was also a member of WTMC, The Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture He also holds an MSc in Technology and Society from TU/e.

Frank is currently one or the research directors of the research network ‘Drivers and Carriers of Globalisation’ of the NW Posthumus research School for Economic and Social History and board member of the Dutch Business History Foundation (SBG). He has authored several book chapters and publishes regularly in key journals, such as Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development, Builders and Planners, Cycling Cities: The European Experience and Hacking Europe. Frank is also involved with the organization, and holds presentations and keynote speeches at, workshops, seminars, courses and exhibitions. Recent examples include NW Posthumus conference Global Inequality Trends and Theories, workshop Well-Being and Sustainability in the Netherlands, Tensions of Europe Conference and Changing Society and Sustainability.

Education/Academic qualification

Eindhoven University of Technology

External positions

Board member, Stichting Bedrijfsgeschiedenis (SBG)

2014 → …

Board Member, Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs

2002 → …

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Projects

2 Active
4 Finished

GREASE

van der Vleuten, E., van der Vleuten, E., Veraart, F. C. A. & Smits, J. P. H.

1/10/18 → 30/09/21

Project: Research direct

Impuls projects between TU Eindhoven, RWS, and PON

Oldenziel, R., Oldenziel, R., Dekker, H., Petzer, B., Bek, P. K. B., Sun, Q., Jeekel, J. F. (., Verbong, G. P. J., Veraart, F. C. A., Wieczorek, A. J., Spahn, A. & Kalmbach, K.

16/12/15 → 31/12/20

Project: Research direct

Historical Roots of the Dutch Sustainability Challenge

Lintsen, H. W., Veraart, F. C. A. & Kirkels, A. F.

1/02/12 → 31/12/16

Project: Research direct

DTU SusTrans (Research alliance on Sustainable Transitions to a Low Carbon Society)

Verbong, G. P. J. & Veraart, F. C. A.

1/01/11 → 30/06/14

Project: Research direct

Bilateral: The politics of low carbon innovation: towards a theory of niche protection

Veraart, F. C. A.

1/10/10 → 31/10/14

Project: Research direct

Research Output

68 Citations
37 Chapter
13 Article
5 Conference contribution
4 Book
12 More

Challenging Europe: technology, environment and the quest for resource security

Heymann, M., Kotchetkova, E., Högselius, P., Sparenberg, O., Martin, J., Åberg, A. & Veraart, F., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Technology and Culture. 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Connected by oil: a framework to analyze the connected sustainability histories of the Niger and Rhine Deltas, 1950-2015

Veraart, F. C. A., Smits, J-P. P. H. & van der Vleuten, E., Jan 2020, In : The Extractive Industries and Society. 7, 1, p. 50-67

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Creating, capturing, and circulating commodities: the technology and politics of material resource flows, from the 19th century to the present

Veraart, F., Åberg, A. & Vikström, H., Jan 2020, In : The Extractive Industries and Society. 7, 1, p. 1-7 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Towards a long-term measurement system of sustainable urban mobility

Smits, J-P. P. H. & Veraart, F. C. A., 2020, A U-turn to the Future: Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850. Emanuel, M., Schipper, F. & Oldenziel, R. (eds.). New York: Berghahn Books Inc., p. 305-323 18 p. (Explorations in Mobility; vol. 4).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Land or lakes: gravel excavation in Dutch spatial and resources policies through the lens of sustainability developments, 1950–2015

Veraart, F., 1 Mar 2019, In : Land use policy. 82, p. 367-374 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

1 Downloads (Pure)

Activities

7 Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition
3 Consultancy
2 Conference
2 Invited talk
5 More

Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: global North-South dialogues

M. Luìsa Sousa (Organiser), Maria Paula Diogo (Organiser), Frank C.A. Veraart (Organiser), Erik van der Vleuten (Organiser), Matthias Heymann (Organiser)

18 Sep 2019 → 20 Sep 2019

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Scientific