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Jacques Grinevald, pioneer of degrowth thinking - Award Acceptance at DSDS 2015

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Jacques Grinevald (Epistemologist and Historian, The Graduate Institute Geneva) was awarded with the Unconventional Thinking Award for his important contributions to the Decroissance (Degrowth) literature and for his service in advancing thinking around anthropocene and bioeconomics. Grinevald as a trans-disciplinary researcher has made notable contributions as an epistemologist and historian of scientific and technological developments. 
The winners of the 2015 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Awards were announced on 6th February 2015 during the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit. The awardee for the Unconventional Thinking Award was selected by a nomination-selection process involving a seven-member jury. Professor Jacques Grinevald is the winner of the Georgescu-Roegen Award in the Unconventional Thinking Category. 
The Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Annual Awards were launched by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) 2012, on the occasion of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's 106th birth anniversary. Georgescu-Roegen emphasized the need to account for inconvenient variables like energy and matter flows, fund and flow elements, and processes such as institutional inertia in the analysis of economic, ecological and social systems. 
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