Jacques Grinevald

Jacques Marie Leon Grinevald , born the January 14th 1946 with Strasbourg, philosopher and historian French.

Wire of Theodore Grinevald (1919-1975), French Christian trade unionist become in 1951 international civil servant with the the ILO.

Professional path: 1970-1971 co-operator and professor in Republic of Chad; 1972-1974: person in charge of the Press service and Information of the University of Geneva; 1973-1980 assistant at the University of Geneva (FAC. of right); 1974-…. researcher, part-time lecturer, then professor at the Academic institute of Study of the Development (iuéd); 1980-…. part-time lecturer at the Federal Polytechnic school of Lausanne (FPSL); 1980-2005. Part-time lecturer to the Faculty of the economic scenes and social, Linked Geneva.

Fields of research: History and epistemology of the scientific and technical development; History of the ideas of the ecology policy and total scientific ecology; Climate changes; Ecological economy; History of the greenhouse effect. Curricular areas: Total ecology and bearable development; Science and policy of the greenhouse effect and the climate changes; History and epistemology of the ecological economy.

Member of learned societies: AAAS (American Association for the Advancement off Science); Geological Society off London; History off Society Science; International Association off Ecology (INTECOL); International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE); The New York Academy off Sciences; Member of the committee of ECOROPA; former collaborator of World Council For The Biosphere; member of the Scientific advice of the Parks of France.

Jacques Grinevald collaborates in many publications like the European Review of social sciences and Cahiers Vilfredo Pareto , the Ecologist , Silence , Transversales , energy Stratégies biosphere & company , Research , the Journal of Geneva , the Platform .

The work of Jacques Grinevald is above all pluri- and trans-disciplinary and relates to the crisis ecological, political, economic, industrial of XXe and XXIe century. It develops its thought around two great figures: the Russian scientist Vladimir Ivanovič Vernadskii (1863-1945) of which it signed the introduction of the critical edition of the Biosphere in English, Italian and contributed to the Spanish translation. He was the friend of the large economist roumano-American Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994) of which he translated and prefaced (with Ivo Rens) the bioeconomic theses under the title of " Décroissance": entropy-ecology-economy (1st ED. 1979, 2nd ED. review and increased 1995. 3rd ED. 2006). It finishes a monumental stopwatch-bibliographical sum entitled Penser and to reconsider the industrial revolution where it proposes to reconsider the concept of Industrial revolution in the light of the thermodynamic revolution since Sadi Carnot (1824). It currently publishes a book summons on the climate and oil, but also all the problems of the evolution of our planet Ground under the title: " Biosphere of Anthropocène. Oil and Climate, the double threat. Reference mark transdisciplinaires 1824-2007" , Editions Medicine & Hygiene, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007.

Works

Selection of articles of Jacques Grinevald:

“Reflections on the entropy”, Networks , re-examined interdisciplinary of moral and political philosophy, 1973,20-21, p. 71-82. (Networks. Interdisciplinary center of philosophical studies of the University of Mons.)
Concept of entropy in the contemporary thought. Fragments for a holistic reflection on time, the disorder and death. Master's paper of philosophy. University of Besancon, social science and Faculty of Arts, 1973,245 p. (New, typed.)
“Science and development: outline of an socio-epistemological approach”, the Plurality of the Worlds . Theories and practices of the development, Books of I.U.E.D., 1, Geneva, I.U.E.D, Paris, P.U.F., 1975, p. 31-97.
“the Revolution cartonienne. Thermodynamics, economy and European ideology”, Re-examined of social sciences and books Vilfredo Pareto , No 36, Paris, P.U.F., 1976, p. 39-79.
“Industrial revolution, technology of the power and revolutions scientific. Bibliographical test criticizes”, the End of the Tools , Cahiers of I.U.E.D., 5, Geneva, I.U.E.D, Paris, P.U.F., 1977, p. 147-202.
“New talks on the plurality of the worlds. Microcosm and macrocosm”, Seven cardinal points, orientations ecological , Books of I.U.E.D., 7, Geneva, I.U.E.D, Paris, P.U.F., 1978 p. 149-220.
“progress and entropy”, Progress in questions, (Acts of IXe conference of a.I.S.L.F., Sociology of Progress, Chin, 12 May 17th, 1975), Paris, Anthropos, 1978, p. 89-129.
Hydraulic architecture at the XVIIIe century: a paradigm vitruvien (Contribution to a historical sociology of technology). Routes, notes and work , No 2, Geneva, I.U.E.D., February 1979, 29,7 cm, 70 p., ill.
“the Direction bioeconomic of human development: the European business Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen”, Re-examined of social sciences and Books Vilfredo Pareto , volume 18, No 51,1980, p. 59-75.
the Development of the planetary crisis and catastrophism of the nuclear age. Bibliographical locations, 1945-1982. Routes, notes and work , No 26, Geneva, I.U.E.D., 1981. 29,7 cm, 21 p. (New ED., 1982,39 p.; 1945-1984. New ED. supplemented review and, 1985 and 1987. 205 p.)
“Thermodynamics, the industrial revolution and the revolution carnotienne”, Entropy , No except series, Thermodynamics and social sciences, 1982, p. 21-32. (International symposium held in Creteil and Paris, 22 June 23rd, 1981.)
the Squaring of the CERN , by Jacques Grinevald, Andre Gsponer, Lucile Hanouz and Pierre Lehmann. Preface of Robert Jungk. - Lausanne, editions of in bottom, 1984. 186 p., ill. (Test indisciplinaire published at the time of the 30e birthday of the CERN, on September 29th, 1984.)
“Entropologie: catastrophism in prospect”, Crisis and whispers, interrogations on the relevance of a concept dominating , Books of I.U.E.D., 15, Geneva, I.U.E.D, Paris, P.U.F., 1984, p. 165-195.
“the Development de/dans biosphere”, the unfinished Man, to become to build: the possible ones of tomorrow , Books of I.U.E.D., 17, Geneva, I.U.E.D, Paris, P.U.F., 1987, p. 29-44.
“One has holistic total concept for deep and ecology: the Biosphere”, Fundamenta Scientiae , No 8 (2), Strasbourg 1987, p. 197-226.
“the Greenhouse effect of the Biosphere. Thermo-industrial revolution with total ecology”, energy Strategies, biosphere & company , No 1, Geneva, Hygiene and medicine, 1990, p. 9-34. (http://www.unige.ch/sebes/textes/1990/1990Grinevald.html)
“the aspect thanatocratic of the genius of the Occident and its role in the human history of the Biosphere”, Re-examined European of social sciences (Books Vilfredo Pareto), T. 29, No 91, Paris, P.U.F., 1991, p. 45-64. Bibliogr. p. 60-64.
“Homage to Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994)”, energy Strategies, biosphere & company , Geneva, Hygiene and medicine, 1995, p. 149-151.
“Verbatim: Discussion with Jacques Grinevald. ” Remarks collected by Laurent Jacquelin in Transverse , No September 2nd, th and th - October 2003, 11 p. (http://grit.agence-revolutions.com/illustrations-2-sept03/entretien-jacques_grinevald.pdf.)
“If nothing changes, all will change”, in Transversales, sciences and cultures , September 30th, 2003. http://grit-transversales.org/article.php3?id_article=21
“Rio + 10! ”, in “Monterrey with Johannesburg: which development? ”, file of Transverse, Science, Culture , 2002. http://www.planetecologie.org/JOBOURG/Francais/transversales/grinewald.htm
“Note on the specificity of a civilisationnelle dynamics”, by Jacques Grinevald, Unmethodical for the future: contributions to the debate on the alternatives , under the direction of Christian Comelieu, New Books of I.U.E.D., 14, Geneva, I.U.E.D, Paris, P.U.F., 2003, p. 75-98.
“the Industrial revolution on the scale of the human history of the Biosphere”, Re-examined European of social sciences , Geneva, Droz Bookstore, 2006, XLIV, No 134, p. 139-167. (Volume offered to Gerard Berthoud).
To think and reconsider the Industrial revolution on a monde/1824-2006/Thinking scale and Rethinking the Industrial Revolution At the world scale , Geneva, 2006,550 p. (New. Teaching document.)
Biosphere of Anthropocène. Oil and climate, the double threat. Locate transdisciplinaire 1824-2007 . Editions Medicine & Hygiene, Geneva, Switzerland, Georg, 2007. 300 p. Collection: “Energy Strategies, Biosphere and Company”
GEORGESCU-ROEGEN (Nicholas), Tomorrow decrease. Entropy, ecology, economy . Translation, presentation and annotation Jacques Grinevald and Ivo Rens. Lausanne, Pierre-Marcel Favre, 1979. 21 cm, 157 p. re-examined and increased edition. Translated and presented by Jacques Grinevald and Ivo Rens. Paris, Blood of the Earth, 1995. 21 cm, 220 p.; 3 {{E}} re-examined and increased edition. Paris, Hellebore and Blood of the Earth, 2006. 22,5 cm, 304 p.
a Planet, a future . Cheryl Simon Silver and Ruth S. DeFries for the national Academy of sciences (the USA). Introduction by Jacques Grinevald. Transl. Of American by Agnes Bertrand. Paris, Blood of the Earth, 1992. 22 cm, XXIX-189 p., ill. (Collection: New horizons.) Translated: Future One earth, one.
SCHNEIDER (Stephen Henry), Where goes the climate? : what do we know climate change? With the participation of Pascale Morand Francis, David Stickelberger, Jacques Grinevald. Transl. and transcription Benoit Lambert. ED. Silence, Greenpeace, 1996. 21 cm, 63 p. (In before-title: Greenpeace conference, University of Geneva, March 16th, 1995.)
LOVELOCK (James E.), Gaïa: a medicine for the planet . Geophysiology, new science of the ground, by James. Preface of Jacques Grinevald. Frenchwoman Bernard Sigaud. 2nd edition. Paris, Blood of the Earth, 2001. 25 cm, 192 p., ill. (Transl. of: Gaia, the practical science off planetary medicine.)

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