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"A suitable total for the number of citizens
cannot be fixed without considering the land..." - Plato, Laws, V
 
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Footprints of Nations Study:
This report
compares the ecological impact of 150 nations, housing over 99 percent of the
world's population. Recently updated with 1996 data.
http://www.rprogress.org/programs/sustainability/ef/ef_nations.html
Ecological Footprint Links and Resources
http://www.rprogress.org/programs/sustainability/links.html
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Footprint directly from
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Please send questions and correspondence to Dr.
William Rees
Mailing address: School of Community and Regional Planning #433
- 6333 Memorial Road Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2 Canada
email.wrees@interchange.ubc.ca
Dr. William Rees' profile:
scarp.ubc.ca/people2.asp?name=rees
Biographical information for Dr. William
Rees:
William Rees has taught at the University of British Columbia since
1969-70 and is currently Professor in the School of Community and Regional
Planning. His teaching and research emphasize the public policy and planning
implications of global environmental trends and the necessary ecological
conditions for sustainable socioeconomic development. Much of his work is in
the realm of ecological economics and human ecology. He is best known in this
field for his invention of 'ecological footprint analysis', a quantitative tool
that estimates humanity's ecological impact on the ecosphere in terms of
appropriated ecosystem (land and water) area. This research reveals the
fundamental incompatibility between continued material economic growth and
ecological security, and has helped to reopen debate on human carrying capacity
as a consideration in sustainable development. Dr. Rees is currently a
co-investigator in the 'Global Integrity Project', oriented toward determining
the necessary ecological conditions for biodiversity preservation. He has been
invited to lecture on his work across Canada and the U.S., as well as in
Australia, Austria, China, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, the
Netherlands, Norway, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, the former Soviet Union, Spain,
Sri Lanka, and Sweden. Dr. Rees was awarded a UBC Killam Research Prize (1996)
in acknowledgement of his research achievements.
Publications by Dr. William Rees:
Monetary
Analysis: Turning a Blind Eye On Sustainability. (1998) Article and M.
Wackernagel. , Ecological Economics (in press). How Should a Parasite Value its
Host? (1998) Article Ecological Economics 25:49-52. Consuming the Earth: The
Biophysics of Sustainability. (1998) Article Ecological Economics (in press)
The Built Environment and the Ecosphere: A Global Perspective. (1998)
conference papers Proceedings, Green Building Challenge. Vancouver (26-28
October, 1998 ). Urban Ecosystems: The Human Dimension. (1997) Article Urban
Ecosystems 1:63-75. Perceptual and Structural Barriers to Investing in Natural
Capital: Economics from an Ecological Footprints Perspective. (1997) Article
Wackernagel, M. and.., Ecological Economics 20:1:3-24. Let's Just Assume We're
Sustainable. (1997) Article Dollars and Sense (May-June 1997: 38-39). Is
'Sustainable City' an Oxymoron? (1997) Article Local Environment 2:3:303-310.
Urban Ecological Footprints: Why Cities Cannot be Sustainable and Why they are
Key to Sustainability. (1996) Article Environmental Impact Assessment Review,
1996. Urban Ecological Footprints: Why Cities Cannot be Sustainable (and Why
they are a Key to Sustainability). (1996) Article and M. Wackernagel.
Environmental Impact Assessment Review 16:223-248. The Footprints of
Consumption: Tracking Ecospheric Decline. (1996) Article The Trumpeter.
14:1:2-4. Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability
(1996) Article . Population and Environment 17:195-215. Our Ecological
Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. (1996) Book, chapter
Wackernagel, M. and..,Gabriola Island, BC and Stony Creek, CT: New Society
Publishers. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on Earth. (1996)
Book, chapter William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel. New Society Publishers,
1996. More Jobs, Less Damage: A Framework for Sustainability, Growth and
Employment. (1995) Article Alternatives 21:4:24-30. Cumulative Environment
Assessment and Global Change. (1995) Article Environmental Impact Assessment
Review 15:295-309. Achieving Sustainability: Reform or Transformation? (1995)
Article Journal of Planning Literature 9:4:343-361. Trade as the Appropriation
of Carrying Capacity, in Growth, Trade, and Environmental Values, (1995) Book,
chapter T. Schrecker ed., Sustainability, Growth and Employment (1994) working
papers Centre for Human Settlements Publications Pressing Global Limits: Trade
as the Appropriation of Carrying Capacity (1994) working papers Centre for
Human Settlements Publications Planning for Sustainable Development: A Resource
Book (1990) monographs Centre for Human Settlements Publications Defining
"Sustainable Development" (1989) (1989) research bulletins Centre for Human
Settlements Publications Ecological Meaning of Environment-Economy Integration
(1989) discussion papers Centre for Human Settlements Publications Atmospheric
Change: Human Ecology in Disequilibrium (1989) discussion papers Centre for
Human Settlements Publications The Role of Environmental Assess-ment in
Promoting Sustainable Development (1988) discussion papers Centre for Human
Settlements Publications Sustainable Development and How to Achieve it (1988)
discussion papers Centre for Human Settlements Publications Implementation of
the Norman Wells Project Impact Funding Program (1987) working papers Centre
for Human Settlements Publications Stable Community Development in the North:
Properties and Requirements (1986) working papers Centre for Human Settlements
Publications Genesis and Structure of the 'Dene Gondie' Study: What People Say
about the Norman Wells Project (1986) working papers Centre for Human
Settlements Publications Government Management Capability: A Brief to the
Beaufort Sea Environmental Assessment Panel (1985) working papers Centre for
Human Settlements Publications Politics, Power and Northern Land Use Planning
(1984) working papers Centre for Human Settlements Publications Environmental
Assessment of Hydrocarbon Production from the Canadian Beaufort Sea (1984)
If you would
like you may order Ecological Footprint directly from
New Society
Publishers
http://newsociety.com/
Mathis Wackernagel is credited
along with William Mees, with the coining of the term, "Ecological Footprint."
Beginners who wish to find out about ecological footprinting should pick up a
copy of the classic book, OUR ECOLOGICAL
FOOTPRINT. Dr. Wackernagel has a list of publications as long as your
arm, but we just didn't have time to list them here.
Mathis Wackernagel,
wackernagel@rprogress.org is
coordinator of the Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad at the
Universidad Anáhuac de Xalapa in Mexico and Director of the Indicators
Program at Redefining Progresshttp://www.rprogress.org based in San
Francisco, USA. He has a Ph.D. in community and regional planning from the
University of British Columbia in Canada and a mechanical engineering degree
from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Dr. Mathis Wackernagel contact information:
Apdo. Postal 653 91000 Xalapa, Ver., MEXICO tel.: ++52 (28) 14-96-11 fax:
++52 (28) 19-15-15 e-mail: wackernagel@rprogress.org
Ecological Footprints of Nations: How Much
Nature Do They Use? -- How Much Nature Do They Have? by Mathis Wackernagel et
al.
http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/focus/report/english/footprint/
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