Mathis Wackernagel
Mathis Wackernagel | |
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Born | 10 November 1962 Basel, Switzerland |
Education | Ph.D. in Community and Regional Planning |
Occupation | President |
Employer | Global Footprint Network |
Known for | creating the ecological footprint concept, promoting Earth Overshoot Day |
Website | http://footprintnetwork.org/ |
Mathis Wackernagel is a
After earning a degree in
Wackernagel has said that "
Awards and honors
In November 2022, the University of Stirling bestowed Wackernagel with an
In 2018, Wackernagel and Zhifu Mi were the joint recipients of the second World Sustainability Award.[6] Wackernagel, along with Susan Burns, received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation in 2007.[7] 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.[8] With Global Footprint Network, he received the International Prize Calouste Gulbenkian 2008 (Lisbon, Portugal) “dedicated to the respect for biodiversity and defense of the environment in man’s relationship with nature.”[9]
In 2013, Wackernagel received the Prix Nature Swisscanto.[10] Prior, he received the 2012 Binding-Prize for Nature Conservation,[11] the bi-annual Kenneth Boulding Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics,[12] and the Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Glass Foundation (the latter two with William E. Rees).[13] He also received the 2011 Zayed International Prize for Environment [14] in the category "action leading to positive change in society." The Zayed prize recognized Wackernagel's contribution to “translate[ing] the complexity of humanity's impact on the environment and natural resources into a more understandable and actionable form. The concept of ‘ecological limits' and relating the demands of human beings to the planet's available ecological resources, has attracted and is catalyzing action among governments, business and civil society."
The (En)Rich List ranked Wackernagel as the 19th of the 100 most inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.[15]
Published works
- Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth (with Williams E. Rees, and Phil Testemale, 1995, New Society Publishers) ISBN 0-86571-312-X
- Ecological Footprint: Managing our Biocapacity Budget (with Bert Beyers, 2019, New Society Publishers) ISBN 978-0-86571-911-8
- Sharing Nature's Interest (with Nicky Chambers and Craig Simmons, 2001) ISBN 1-85383-738-5
- The Winners and Losers in Global Competition: Why Eco-Efficiency Reinforces Competitiveness: A Study of 44 Nations (with Andreas Sturm, 2003) ISBN 1-55753-357-1
- Der Ecological Footprint. Die Welt neu vermessen. (with Bert Beyers)
- 2010, ISBN 3-931705-32-3
- 2016, ISBN 978-3863930745(with updated figures)
- 2010,
- MDPI-Sustainability, 2019, "Defying the Footprint Oracle: Implications of Country Resource Trends" (open access)
- Frontiers in Energy Research, 2017, "Making the Sustainable Development Goals Consistent with Sustainability" (open access)
- Planetary Prosperity Means Zero Carbon, Impakter.com, 2017
- Are the Sustainable Development Goals Already in Trouble?, Impakter.com, 2017
Interviews with Wackernagel
- 5th Switzerland. "A Man's Fight for Our Survival.," also available on Apple, January 2023
- COSMOS Magazine. "Finding Australia’s biocapacity: Dr Mathis Wackernagel explains biocapacity and how it’s calculated" April 2022
- Swissinfo.com. "The Swiss man behind the Ecological Footprint" April 2022
- Research Outreach. "Measure what you treasure" April 2019
- Natural Intelligence. PodCast. "Balancing Our Account with Nature" September 2019
- La Vanguardia (in Spanish). "La Tierra tiene un límite, pero la avaricia de algunos, no" November 2017
Websites and videos
- Website of Mathis Wackernagel
- Website on Global Footprint Network
- Website on Earth Overshoot Day
- Website on Switzerland's resource security - «Watch out, dear Switzerland!»
- VIDEO: Choosing your future in the era of ecological overshoot | David Lin & Mathis Wackernagel, RE:WIRED Green, San Francisco, September 2022
- VIDEO: How much Nature do we have? How much do we use? | Mathis Wackernagel, TEDxSanFrancisco 2016
- VIDEO: Mathis Wackernagel on Whole Earth Systems | at the 2018 Saint Louis Climate Summit
References
- OCLC 41839429. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-12-13.
- ^ "Mathis Wackernagel Biography". Archived from the original on 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
- ^ "Pillsbury, Wackernagel named Rhodes professors - Cornell Chronicle". www.news.cornell.edu. April 2010. Archived from the original on 2016-08-09.
- ^ "Measuring our global impact". New Scientist environment blog. 2007-08-28. Archived from the original on 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2 September 2007.
- ^ "Humans now living on ecological credit". Deutsche Welle NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT - GLOBAL ISSUES. 2023-08-02. Archived from the original on 2023-08-08. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "MDPI Sustainability Foundation". wsforum.org. Archived from the original on 2023-02-01. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ "Global Footprint Network". skoll.org. Archived from the original on 20 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Awards – United States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE)". www.ussee.org. Archived from the original on 9 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ "Apresentação - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian" (PDF). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
- ^ "NATUR: Hauptpreis". Archived from the original on 2013-05-07. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
- ^ "Preisverleihung 2012". www.binding.li. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ^ "Boulding Award". The International Society for Ecological Economics. 15 January 2018. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Blue Planet Prize : The Laureates - The Asahi Glass Foundation". www.af-info.or.jp. Archived from the original on 2016-12-25. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ^ "Zayed International Prize for the Environment". www.zayedprize.org.ae. Archived from the original on 2024-03-29. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ^ "Mathis Wackernagel". enrichlist.org. 7 March 2012. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017.