Jacques Grinevald

Jacques Grinevald (born January 14, 1946 in Strasbourg) is a French philosopher and historian of scientific and technological development who helped pioneer the idea of degrowth. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} He is a professor emeritus of global ecology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. ^{[5] [6]}

Background and education

After studying political science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Grinevald went on to obtain a doctoral degree in epistemology and the history of science from Paris Nanterre University. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

Grinevald joined the faculty of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in 1973. He has also taught at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and at the University of Geneva. ^[10]

In 2015, he was awarded an Energy and Resources Institute Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Award "for his important contributions to the Decroissance (Degrowth) literature." ^[11]

Work

Grinevald is best known for helping bring the idea of degrowth to prominence in 1970s France by translating into French (alongside Swiss law professor Ivo Rens (fr)) the works of its prominent theorist the ecological economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. ^{[12] [13]}

Grinevald is a fellow of the Geological Society of London and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group, an interdisciplinary research group established by the International Commission on Stratigraphy dedicated to the study of the Anthropocene as a geological time unit. ^{[14] [15] [16]}

Publication

Representative publications include:

• La Biosphère de l'Anthropocène: pétrole et climate, la double menace: repères transdisciplinaires, 1824–2007. (Geneva, Georg) (2007) 292p.
• Demain la décroissance: Entropie - Écologie - Économie. By N. Georgescu-Roegen, ed. by J. Grinevald and I. Rens (Paris, P.-M. Favre Editions) (1979) 254p.
• "The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives," co-authored with Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen and J. R. McNeill, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2011).
• "Was the Anthropocene anticipated," co-authored with Clive Hamilton, The Anthropocene Review (2015).

References

1. "Degrowth". Degrowth. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
2. Cometti, Geremia. "Departing Faculty: Jacques Grinevald" (PDF). Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
3. "La recherche des limites de l'anthropocène agite les scientifiques - Le Temps" (in French). 2023-01-28. ISSN   1423-3967 . Retrieved 2024-10-11.
4. ""La révolution thermo-industrielle bouleverse la Terre"" (in French). 2011-02-04. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
5. "Jacques Grinevald | IHEID". www.graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
6. Carbonnier, Gilles; Grinevald, Jacques (2011-03-31). "Energy and Development". International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement. 2 (2). doi: 10.4000/poldev.724 . ISSN   1663-9375.
7. "De la révolution thermo-industrielle à la révolution carnotienne et retour | IHEID". www.graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
8. Grinevald, Jacques (1987), Preiswerk, Yvonne; Vallet, Jacques (eds.), "Le développement de/dans la biosphère", L’homme inachevé : Un devenir à construire : les « possibles » de l’homme, Cahiers de l’IUED (in French), Genève: Graduate Institute Publications, pp. 29–44, ISBN   978-2-940549-84-9 , retrieved 2024-10-11
9. Grinevald, Jacques (1979). Énergie et civilisation: de Vitruve à Carmot et retour (Thèse de 3e cycle thesis). France: Université Paris Nanterre.
10. "Jacques Grinevald | IHEID". www.graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
11. "Georgescu-Roegen Awards". wsds.teriin.org. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
12. "Degrowth: the history of an idea | EHNE". ehne.fr. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
13. Kerschner, Christian (2010-04-01). "Economic de-growth vs. steady-state economy" . Journal of Cleaner Production. Growth, Recession or Degrowth for Sustainability and Equity?. 18 (6): 544–551. Bibcode:2010JCPro..18..544K. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.10.019. ISSN   0959-6526.
14. "Jacques Grinevald". Technosphere Magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
15. "Anthropocene Curriculum". www.anthropocene-curriculum.org. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
16. "Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' | Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy" . Retrieved 2024-10-11.