William E. Rees
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Canadian ecologist
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William E. Rees's Degrees
- Masters Zoology University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Rees, FRSC , is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia and former director of the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC. Rees taught at the University of British Columbia from 1969–70 until his retirement in 2011–12, but has since continued his writing and research. His primary interest is in public policy and planning relating to global environmental trends and the ecological conditions for sustainable socioeconomic development. He is the originator of the "ecological footprint" concept and co-developer of the method.
William E. Rees's Published Works
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- Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out (1992) (1528)
- Our ecological footprint (1996) (1052)
- Urban ecological footprints: Why cities cannot be sustainable—And why they are a key to sustainability (1996) (978)
- Perceptual and structural barriers to investing in natural capital: Economics from an ecological footprint perspective (1997) (545)
- Revisiting carrying capacity: Area-based indicators of sustainability (1996) (472)
- Ecological Footprints and Appropriated Carrying Capacity: What Urban Economics Leaves Out (2017) (442)
- Are We Consuming Too Much—for What? (2007) (376)
- A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts (2009) (287)
- Bird communities and the structure of urban habitats (1979) (245)
- The built environment and the ecosphere: a global perspective (1999) (182)
- The ecology of sustainable development. (1990) (175)
- What’s blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial (2010) (164)
- An urban metabolism and ecological footprint assessment of Metro Vancouver. (2013) (158)
- Urban ecosystems: the human dimension (1997) (158)
- Globalization and Sustainability: Conflict or Convergence? (2002) (140)
- Achieving Sustainability: Reform or Transformation? (1995) (135)
- Is 'sustainable city' an oxymoron? (1997) (129)
- Economic Development And Environmental Protection: An Ecological Economics Perspective (2003) (123)
- Ecological Footprints and Biocapacity: Essential Elements in Sustainability Assessment (2006) (104)
- The ecological crisis and self-delusion: implications for the building sector (2009) (89)
- Interregional sustainability: governance and policy in an ecologically interdependent world (2011) (75)
- Wood and non-wood pulp production: Comparative ecological footprinting on the Canadian prairies (2007) (72)
- An interregional ecological approach for modelling sustainability in a globalizing world???Reviewing existing approaches and emerging directions (2010) (71)
- Human nature, eco-footprints and environmental injustice (2008) (70)
- FORUM: Monetary analysis: turning a blind eye on sustainability (1999) (70)
- Importing terrestrial biocapacity: The U.S. case and global implications (2010) (68)
- How should a parasite value its host (1998) (68)
- Cities as Dissipative Structures: Global Change and the Vulnerability of Urban Civilization (2012) (66)
- Footprints on the prairies: Degradation and sustainability of Canadian agricultural land in a globalizing world (2009) (65)
- An Ecological Economics Perspective on Sustainability and Prospects for Ending Poverty (2002) (56)
- A role for environmental assessment in achieving sustainable development (1988) (54)
- Impeding Sustainability? The Ecological Footprint of Higher Education. (2003) (53)
- Globalization, trade and migration: Undermining sustainability (2006) (53)
- SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: PLANNING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (1998) (51)
- FORUM: Consuming the earth: the biophysics of sustainability (1999) (47)
- Cumulative environmental assessment and global change (1995) (46)
- The Shoe Fits, but the Footprint is Larger than Earth (2013) (43)
- Accounting for the Ecological Footprint of Materials in Consumer Goods at the Urban Scale (2013) (42)
- Ecological economics for humanity’s plague phase (2020) (41)
- UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (1998) (41)
- Ecological Footprint, Concept of (2013) (39)
- When Consumption Does Violence: Can there be Sustainability and Environmental Justice in a Resource-limited World? (2012) (34)
- Tomorrow’s City Today: Prospects for Standardising Sustainable Urban Development (2015) (32)
- How big is our ecological footprint (1993) (31)
- Understanding Urban Ecosystems: An Ecological Economics Perspective (2003) (28)
- Ecological footprints: A blot on the land (2003) (25)
- Footprint: our impact on Earth is getting heavier (2002) (23)
- Ecological Footprints for Beginners (2014) (19)
- Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition (2021) (19)
- Valuing natural capital and the costs and benefits of restoration (2007) (19)
- EARP at the crossroads: Environmental assessment in Canada (1980) (16)
- Getting to One-Planet Living (2013) (16)
- Assessing Sustainability in a Globalizing World (2009) (15)
- Is humanity fatally successful (2002) (14)
- The eco-footprint of agriculture: a far-from-(thermodynamic)-equilibrium interpretation. (2004) (13)
- Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Materials at the Urban Scale-Relating Existing Process Life Cycle Assessment Studies to Urban Material and Waste Composition (2013) (12)
- The Conundrum of Urban Sustainability (2001) (12)
- Preliminary Observations of the Taruca (Hippocamelus antisensis: Cervidae) in Southern Peru (1976) (11)
- 1 – Ecological footprints and urban transportation (2003) (10)
- Notes on the Puna Avifauna of Azángaro Province, Department of Puno, Southern Peru (1979) (10)
- Getting Serious about Urban Sustainability : Eco-Footprints and the Vulnerability of 21 st Century Cities (2011) (10)
- Just Ecological Integrity: The Ethics of Maintaining Planetary Life (2002) (9)
- Why Place-Based Food Systems? Food Security in a Chaotic World (2019) (9)
- Economics, Ecology, and the Limits of Conventional Analysis (1991) (9)
- Exporting natural capital: the foreign eco-footprint on Costa Rica and implications for sustainability (2010) (9)
- Avoiding Collapse: An Agenda for De-growth and Re-localisation (2015) (9)
- Sustainable Development: Economic Myths and Ecological Realities (1988) (8)
- Ecological Footprints, Fair Earth-Shares and Urbanization (2013) (7)
- IMPACT ASSESSMENT FROM PSEUDO-SCIENCE TO PLANNING PROCESS: AN EDUCATIONAL RESPONSE (1984) (7)
- Ecological footprints of the future. Overview. (1996) (7)
- Puya raimondii (Pitcairnioideae, Bromeliaceae) and birds: an hypothesis on nutrient relationships (1980) (7)
- Sustainable Development and The Deep Long-Range Ecology Movement (1988) (6)
- Denying Herman Daly: why conventional economists will not embrace the Daly vision (2016) (6)
- The Way Forward: Survival 2100 (2014) (6)
- SPECIAL SECTION: FORUM ON VALUATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES How should a parasite value its host? (1998) (6)
- Contemplating the abyss (2005) (6)
- Planning in the Anthropocene (2017) (5)
- Scientists' warning on population. (2022) (5)
- Wild Salmon in the 21st Century: Energy, Triage and Choices (2006) (5)
- World scientists’ warnings into action, local to global (2021) (4)
- Megacities at risk: the climate–energy conundrum (2020) (4)
- Hematemesis and melena: a survey in a British provincial hospital Jan. 1938-July, 1951. (1954) (4)
- Sustainability vs. Resilience (2019) (3)
- Environmental assessment of hydrocarbon production from the Canadian Beaufort Sea (1983) (3)
- Ecological Integrity and Material Growth: Irreconcilable Conflict? (1999) (3)
- Chapter 13. Global Change, Ecological Footprints, and Urban Sustainability (2001) (3)
- A greenhouse gas emissions inventory and ecological footprint analysis of Metro Vancouver residents’ air travel (2013) (3)
- An analysis of a brownlash report (2007) (3)
- Coastal Ecosystem Planning and Impact Evaluation (1978) (3)
- Toward a Sustainable World Economy (2011) (2)
- Globalization and Extended Eco-footprints: Neo-colonialism and (Un)sustainability (2010) (2)
- In quest of “natural man”: Human behaviour and design (1978) (2)
- A Human Ecological Assessment of Economic and Population Health (2000) (2)
- Atmospheric change: human ecology in disequilibrium (1990) (2)
- Sustainable development as capitalism with a green face (Book Review) (1990) (2)
- The Business of Consumption: Environmental Ethics and the Global Economy (1998) (2)
- Going down? Human nature, growth and (un)sustainability (2017) (2)
- North American Soils and World Food (2017) (1)
- Carrying capacity, globalisation, and the unsustainable entanglement of nations (2013) (1)
- The Footprints of Consumption: Tracking Ecospheric Decline (1997) (1)
- Norman Wells impact funding: boon or bust? (1989) (1)
- The end (of growth) is nigh (2018) (1)
- Let's Get Serious about (Un)Sustainability (Or is it already too late?) (2008) (1)
- Energy Supply and Pricing for a Sustainable Future (2003) (1)
- The human eco-predicament: Overshoot and the population conundrum (2022) (1)
- Lang, Reg and Audrey Armour, "Environmental Planning Resourcebook" (Book Review) (1981) (0)
- Ecological Footprint Analysis: Assessing Urban Sustainability (2016) (0)
- Reply to Diesendorf, M. Comment on “Seibert, M.K.; Rees, W.E. Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition. Energies 2021, 14, 4508” (2022) (0)
- Future of sustainability (2004) (0)
- To What Extent is Sustainability Addressed at Urban Scale and How Aligned is it with Earth's Carrying Capacity? (2022) (0)
- Why Large Cities Won’t Survive the Twenty-First Century (2022) (0)
- Higher education institutions must strive to reduce the impact of their own ecological footprints. (2003) (0)
- Aberrant intestinal epithelial cell signaling drives inflammatory responses to bacterial flagellin in inflammatory bowel disease (2021) (0)
- Debate on the paper by David Waltner-Toews (2001) (0)
- Cities, energy and the uncertain future of urban civilization (2023) (0)
- Some aspects of measuring the returns to investment in education (1969) (0)
- Assessing the Performance and Practice of Urban Environments Edited by PIERRE LACONTE and CHRIS GOSSOP (2016) (0)
- Interregional Interdependence: A Framework and Policy Prescriptions for Sustainability (2011) (0)
- Jack M. Hollander, The real environmental crisis: why poverty, not affluence, is the environment's number one enemy, University of California Press (2003) ISBN 0520237889 235 pp. (2005) (0)
- Chicago: Transformations of an urban system: Brian J.L. Berry, Irving Cutler, Edwin H. Draine, Ying-cheng Kiang, Thomas R. Tocalis and Pierre de Vise. Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Mass., 1976, 101 pp., 70 figures, 10 tables, US $5.45, £3.20, ISBN 88410-435-4 (1977) (0)
- State of the world 1990: Lester R. Brown et al 253 pages, $9.95 (London, New York, W.W. Norton, 1990) (1990) (0)
- HUMAN AGENCY GONE AWRY (2007) (0)
- More Sustainable Cities (2009) (0)
- Reply to Fthenakis et al. Comment on “Seibert, M.K.; Rees, W.E. Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition. Energies 2021, 14, 4508” (2022) (0)
- Fundamentals of ( Un ) Sustainability : The Easter Island Syndrome (2004) (0)
- Study of the European Communities re-adaptation aids in the coal and steel industries (1988) (0)
- The Roots of Our Crises: Does Human Nature Drive Us toward Collapse? (2017) (0)
- Human Ecology, Material Consumption, and the Sea: Indices of Human Ecological Dysfunction (2001) (0)
- Sharing the World. Sustainable Living and Global Equity in the 21st Century, Michael Carley and Philippe Spapens, Earthscan Publications, London, 208 pp., ISBN 1-85383-463-7 (pbk); 1-85383-464-5 (hbk) (2000) (0)
- Resource development and the quality of life: Exploration on two frontiers: ‘Quality of life’ revisited (1978) (0)
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