William Rees
William Rees is a professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP). He founded SCARP’s Environment and Resource Planning concentration and served as director from 1994 to 1999. His research focuses on the public policy and planning implications of global environmental trends and the necessary ecological conditions for sustainable socioeconomic development, and he is best known as the originator of “ecological footprint analysis.” He is also a founding member and former president of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; a co-investigator in the Global Integrity Project, aimed at defining the ecological and political requirements for biodiversity preservation; a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute; and a Founding Fellow of the One Earth Initiative.
GTI Contributions
Viewpoint
June 2015
Operating from a realistic paradigm that understands the economy as embedded in the ecosphere is the key to transitioning to a sustainable civilization. Will the increasing unfitness of growth-obsessed neoliberal economics to our social and ecological realities spell its demise?
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable “Does Nature Have a Price Tag?”
An exchange on the viewpoint Monetizing Nature: Taking Precaution on a Slippery Slope
August 2014
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable “Beyond Consumerism”
An exchange on the viewpoint The Decline and Fall of Consumer Society?
May 2014
