Paul-Marie Boulanger is a Belgian
sociologist active in the study of sustainable development and consumption.
Works
Paul-Marie Boulanger received his degrees in sociology from the
University of Strasbourg
The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers.
The French university traces its history to the ea ...
and that of
Leuven
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His work at the Demography Department of the Catholic University of Leuven focused on demographic, social security and labour market, while when working at the European Agency for Development and Health he was concerned – also as responsible of the Agency’s information system – with food security and famine prevention in
Africa
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Paul-Marie Boulanger is one of the founders of the
Institute for Sustainable Development (Belgium) where he worked since 1996 on sustainable development and transitions. Between 1999 and 2016 he was president of the Institute.
Several of his papers are in the theory of sustainable development and
consumption. His work on models for sustainable development has been used by
several authors.
Boulanger also worked on social indicators of human well-being,
[P. M. Boulanger,
]
Elements for a comprehensive assessment of public indicators
” Ispra -
Italy, 2014. models and methods for decision support,
[P. M. Boulanger, “A systems-theoretical perspective on sustainable development and indicators,” in Routledge Handbook of Sustainability Indicators and Indices, S. Bell and S. Morse, Eds. Taylor & Francis., 2018.] and climate change. As discussed in, Boulanger gave a contribution to the theory of
composite indicators
In statistics and research design, an index is a composite statistic – a measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points, or in other words, a compound measure that aggregates multiple indicators. Indexes – also known as ...
,
including an analysis of the scarce traction of indicators of development meant to unseat GDP as a measures of progress.
He also studies the application of the theories on
Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann (; ; December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory.
Biography
Luhmann was born in Lüneburg, Free State of Prussia, where his father's fa ...
, such as to science’s reproducibility crisis and to interpreting the present pandemic.
[P.-M. Boulanger and A. Saltelli, ]
Pandemic Luhmann
” SSRN Electron. J., May 2020.
References
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Living people
1950 births
Belgian sociologists
Sustainability
Social security
Index numbers
Quantitative research