Serge Antoine

Serge Antoine is a senior official and French ecologist, born the October 3rd 1927 with Strasbourg, dead the March 25th 2006 with Bièvres (Yvelines)

Biography

He follows with his family his father who had joined the general De Gaulle, in June 1940 in England before settling with Algiers. He makes his higher learning with the Institut of political studies of the University of Paris then integrates ENA. Traversing the world there will remain very attached to Bièvres where he resides.

Administrative course

honorary Adviser-Master at the Court of Auditors
1954 Court of Auditors
To advise of the president of Euratom in Brussels
1962 commissioner government for the French administrative area division.
1963 named with the creation of DATAR (Delegation with town and country planning and the regional action) where he works with Olivier Guichard (1963-1968) then Jerome Monod (1968 - 1974) and contributes to the creation of the regional parks
1966 - 1978 directs the “Review 2000” of DATAR
1968 one of the 12 organizers of the College of the advanced techniques and town and country planning
1971 named to the cabinet of the very first minister of environment, Robert Poujade.

Responsible for research then international businesses with the Department of the Environment

1982 - 1985 chairs the National committee of France of the program on the Man and the Biosphere
2003 Membre of the National council of the Sustainable development (CNDD), coordinator of the Territoires topic and sustainable development

International activities

1965 member of the World Society for Ekistics an governmental organization having an advisory statute near the the United Nations (ECOSOC)
1969 joined the Club of Rome
1972 contributes to the preparation of the Conférence of Stockholm
1976 takes part in the negotiations of the Convention of Barcelona for the protection of the Mediterranean. Initiate at the time of this Conference, a study of the area and which is today the Blue Plan which aims at coordinating the environmental policy of the countries on the Mediterranean. He is vice-president of the Blue Plan since 1985.
1992 it is named special adviser of Maurice Strong, the organizer of the Sommet of the Earth of Rio, where it contributes to write chapter 28 of the Agenda 21 on the role of the local government agencies which proposes to them to work out Diaries 21 buildings.
1996, it recommends the installation of the Mediterranean Commission of which he became member representing France

member of the editorial board of the Institute of the world resources
member of the Seydoux Foundation for the Mediterranean.

Associative activities

futurology

it works with Gaston Berger, Fernand Braudel and Bertrand de Jouvenel, the organizer of the club of the " Futuribles"
1973 takes part in creation in France of World Future Studies Federation (WFSF)
1972 Fondation Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, become thereafter Institut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Association in charge with the management and the animation of the Royal saltworks of Arc and Senans (Doubs) giving him a role of International Center of reflection on the Future

sustainable development

1994 it creates in the French Committee for the sustainable development (Committee 21) which joins together undertaken, local government agencies and associations

Beavers

Very committed in its

commune Passions

the balloons of which he liked the flight nonchalant above the Royal saltworks of Arc and Senans
the boat with which it traversed its dear Mediterranean

Decorations and distinctions

1967 Knight of the agricultural Merit
1996 Commander of the National order of the merit
1997 Gold medal of the Mediterranean
1999 Commander about the Legion of honor
2003 total world Price 500 of the Program of the United Nations for the environment

Quotations

“ Disons simply that it should be prevented prolonging the simple environmental approach and that it is necessary to feed in a systemic way to the sources from the economy, the culture, social at the same time as of ecology, than lengthening in futurology is essential, than it is necessary to transform everyone into “actors” and to assemble operations multiacteurs if possible, than it is necessary to play of voluntariate and than the indicators of measurement of the follow-up are essential. ”

“ the durable development policy can be refined. It is done while going, a little as the invisible Man who becomes visible when strips are posed to him. ” discussion with Thierry Paquot

Of Robert Poujade on what one then called the genius of the environment (clean technologies): “ genius of the environment! I know it, it is in my cabinet, it is called Serge Antoine. ”

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