Mathis wackernagel biography definition

Dr. Mathis Wackernagel is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and founder of the Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability think-tank. The think-tank advances an economy in which all can live well, within the means of one planet. It proposes the Ecological Footprint, which tracks how much nature we use and how much we have, as an accounting tool. Mathis has worked on sustainability on six continents. His awards include the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, the 2012 Blue Planet Prize, the 2012 Binding-Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment, an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne in 2007, a 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit. From 2011 to 2014 Mathis was also a visiting professor at Cornell University.

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A Better Future for the Planet Earth

An ecological footprint is the impact of a individ or community on the environment expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources. bygd means of ecological footprint analysis, it became possible for the first time to discuss sustainability systematically. This analysis was jointly developed bygd Professor William E. Rees at the University of British Columbia and Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, President of the Global Footprint Network.

I. Professor William E. Rees

1. Personal History – From childhood to professorship at the University of British Colombia

Childhood (1943 - )

I was born in Manitoba, Canada on December 18, 1943. Looking back on my childhood, I feel very fortunate to have been able to live in Montreal. It was a big city, with all the benefits of city life, plus, inom had the chance at Christmas, New Year's Day, and summer holidays to visit my maternal grandparents on their farm in Ontario, a wonderful place

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Mathis Wackernagel

Swiss-born sustainability advocate (born 1962)

Mathis Wackernagel is a Swiss-born sustainability advocate. He is President of Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability think tank with offices in Oakland, California, and Geneva, Switzerland. The think-tank is a non-profit that focuses on developing and promoting metrics for sustainability.

After earning a degree in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he completed his Ph.D. in community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in 1994. There, in his doctoral dissertation under Professor William Rees, he worked with Rees in creating the ecological footprint concept and developed the accounting methodology for it.^[1] He has worked on sustainability issues for organizations in Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia and Australia. Wackernagel previously served as the director of the Sustainability Program at