Georgescu-Roegen Awards
The Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Annual Awards were launched at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) 2012, on the occasion of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's 106th birth anniversary. Georgescu-Roegen had 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. The first Awards were presented at the DSDS 2013. The co-winners of the First Georgescu-Roegen Award (bioeconomic practice) were Accion Ecologica and Oilwatch. The winner of the First Georgescu-Roegen Award (unconventional thinking) was Kozo Mayumi (Professor at Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima).
About the 2014 Awardees
Unconventional Thinking - Inge Røpke
The Unconventional Thinking Category rewards contributions in academia, and publication of research and literature that reflects unconventional thinking. Professor Inge Røpke has been named the winner of the Georgescu-Roegen Award for Unconventional Thinking and is a sound example of an unconventional thinker. She has been conferred with the Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Award - 2014 for her important contribution to the consumption literature, her service to the ecological economics school of thought. Her two-volume textbook in ecological economics, co-edited with Joan Martinez-Alier, is considered the best of its kind.
Inge Røpke is Professor of Ecological Economics at Aalborg University, Copenhagen. She trained as an economist and holds a PhD in social sciences. Røpke has written about the development of modern ecological economics, trade, economic growth and consumption. Most recently, Røpke has taken up ecological macroeconomics and the need for institutional change for a no-growth society. She is the co-editor (with Lucia Reisch) of The Ecological Economics of Consumption, the co-editor (with Joan Martinez-Alier) of Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, and has published in Ecological Economics, the Journal of Consumer Policy, Research Policy, and many other journals and edited books.
Bioeconomic Practice - Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (chaired by Prof. Madhav Gadgil)
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), chaired by Prof. Madhav Gadgil, has been conferred with the Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Award - 2014 in the Bioeconomic Practice Category for articulation of a policy framework with a scientific methodology for bio-economic practice. WGEEP has accomplished a policy framework based on a detailed and nuanced understanding of the dynamic interactions between people and ecosystems, and contributed a scientific methodology for decision-making in diverse and rich ecological-economic systems.
The Western Ghats Ecology Experts Panel (WGEEP) emphasizes the bio-physical limits of economic activity, and proposes scientifically and ethically informed methods to make decisions about sustainable development given heterogeneous resources and inputs. The WGEEP has accomplished a policy framework based on a detailed and nuanced understanding of the dynamic interactions between people and ecosystems, and contributed a scientific methodology for decision-making in diverse and rich ecological-economic systems.
Article by Prof Madhav Gadgil - Towards an economy of mutualism
2014 Awards Documents
- More about Inge Ropke (winner in Unconventional Thinking Category) Click here to download
- More about Gadgil Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (winner in Bioeconomic Practice Category) Click here to download
- Announcement Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Awards 2014 Click here to download
- Press Release for Georgescu-Roegen Awards 2014 Click here to download
- Press Release after Georgescu-Roegen Awards 2014 Felicitation Click here to download
Award Jury
Recipients of the prize are chosen by an esteemed jury comprising the following individuals:
- Herman Daly, Emeritus Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
- R K Pachauri, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute [TERI], and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Joan Martinez-Alier, Professor of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona
- John Gowdy, Rittenhouse Teaching Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Rajeswari Raina, Scientist, National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies
- Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Director, Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen Adria Universitaet
- Deepak Malghan, Assistant Professor, Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
For more information contact
Shailly Kedia (Associate Fellow, TERI) at shailly.kedia@teri.res.in
Award Categories
- The Awards are given in two categories --
- Category 1) Unconventional thinking: This Award is presented for contribution in academics, research and literature whose work reflect unconventional thinking that Georgescu-Roegen exemplified.
Who can be nominated?
Leading academics, thought leaders, writers and opinion leaders
- Category 2) Bioeconomic Award (practice/ programme): This Award is presented for policy, business and even individuals
Who can be nominated?
Policymakers, businessmen, NGOs and distinguished individuals
Key Dates
- 29 October 2013: Deadline for submission of nominations
- 30 October 2013: TERI sends nominations to jury members who grade them
- 10 December 2013: Results announced
- 8 February 2014: Awards ceremony
About the 2013 Awardees
The Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Award 2013 in Unconventional Thinking Category was awarded to Prof. Kozo Mayumi, University of Tokushima for his research contributions in the field of energy analysis, ecological economics and hierarchy theory based on complex systems thinking. The Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Award 2013 in Bioeconomic Practice Category was awarded to Accion Ecologica and The Oilwatch for their contribution to “Yasunization” and the global movement for the defense of life. More about the 2013 Awardees
Relevant Information
- Presentation Award winners DSDS 2014. Click here to download
- Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) and Georgescu-Roegen. Click here
