Mathis Wackernagel
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| Mathis Wackernagel | |
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| Born | November 10, 1962 |
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| Education | Ph.D. in Community and Regional Planning |
| Occupation | Executive Director |
| Employers | Global Footprint Network |
| Known for | creating the ecological footprint concept |
| Website http://footprintnetwork.org/ |
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Mathis Wackernagel is a Swiss-born sustainability advocate. He is currently Executive Director for Global Footprint Network, an Oakland, California-based 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. There, as his doctoral dissertation with Professor William Rees, he created the ecological footprint concept.
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 Redefining Progress in Oakland, California, and directed the Centre for Sustainability Studies / Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad in Mexico, which he still advises. He is also an adjunct faculty at SAGE of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wackernagel has said that "Overshoot will ultimately liquidate the planet's ecological assets."[1]
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[edit] Awards and honours
Wackernagel, along with Susan Burns, received the Skoll Award for Social Enterpreneurship from the Skoll Foundation in 2007. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 2007, a 2006 World Wide Fund for Nature Award for Conservation Merit, and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of the US Society for Ecological Economics.
[edit] Published works
- Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth (with Williams E. Rees, and Phil Testemale, 1995) ISBN-10: 086571312X
- Sharing Nature's Interest (with Nicky Chambers and Craig Simmons, 2001) ISBN-10: 1853837385
- The Winners and Losers in Global Competition: Why Eco-Efficiency Reinforces Competitiveness: A Study of 44 Nations (with Andreas Sturm, 2003) ISBN-10: 1557533571
[edit] References
- ^ Measuring our global impact. New Scientist environment blog. August 28, 2007. Accessed on 2 September 2007.
