Dominique Bourg (born 11 August 1953 in Tavaux; ) is a French

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

. Since 2006, he is professor at the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...

(

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

).Dominique Bourg
, www.unil.ch (page visited on 11 October 2013). He has two doctorates and is a specialist of the environment, global changes, and

sustainable development Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The des ...

. He published many articles and books and participated in various committees related to the environment.

Works

Dominique Bourg co-directed ''La pensée écologique. Une anthologie'' (literally "Ecological Thinking: an Anthology") with Antoine Fragnière (2014) and the ''Dictionnaire de la pensée écologique'' ("Dictionary of Ecological Thinking") with Alain Papaux (2015). Pascaline Minet
"La pensée écologique en cinq mots"
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Le Temps ''Le Temps'' (literally "The Time") is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published in Berliner format in Geneva by Le Temps SA. It is the sole nationwide French-language non-specialised daily newspaper of Switzerland. Since 2021, it has b ...

'', Tuesday 13 October 2016 (page visited on 19 June 2016). He analyses that, "Ecological thinking is characterised by a critique of modernity, a scepticism about the possibility of solving environmental problems through technology and a questioning of the separation between humans and nature". According to Bourg, the root of the global problem (the deterioration of the environment) is the flow of materials and energy (linked with consumerism). He also thinks that over the last decades,

economic growth Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year. Statisticians conventionally measure such growth as the percent rate of ...

increased wealth concentration and

economic inequality There are wide varieties of economic inequality, most notably income inequality measured using the distribution of income (the amount of money people are paid) and wealth inequality measured using the distribution of wealth (the amount of we ...

while accelerating the destruction of natural resources and ecosystems, but without fulfilling its promise to provide more jobs or make people happier.

Honours

* Prix du « Promeneur solitaire » in 2003.Dominique Bourg

France Inter France Inter () is a major French public radio channel and part of Radio France. It is a "generalist" station, aiming to provide a wide national audience with a full service of news and spoken-word programming, both serious and entertaining, li ...

, biography from the documentation of Radio France (page visited on 15 July 2016). * Officer of the National Order of Merit since 2004.Dominique Bourg
personal page on the website of the Institute of Geography and Sustainability of the

(page visited on 15 July 2016). * Officer of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

since 2013 (Knight since 2001). * « Prix du livre environnement » of the Veolia Foundation in 2015, for the ''Dictionnaire de la pensée écologique'' ("Dictionary of Ecological Thinking").

Other

Dominique Bourg was part of the " Coppens commission" who prepared the French

Charter for the Environment The Charter for the Environment (french: Charte de l'environnement) is a constitutional law of France approved in 2005, forming part of the constitutional block (France), constitutional block () of French law having the same force as the Constituti ...

of 2004.

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External links

Page on the website of the University of Lausanne
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