Mathis wackernagel biography of alberta

By Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees Reviewed by Gene Bazan Center for Sustainability, Pennsylvania State University Expand.

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Mathis Wackernagel

Swiss-born sustainability advocate (born )

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.

An Alberta ecological footprint analysis, based on Mathis Wackernagel's Canadian footprint analysis, reveals that the area required to sustain Alberta's.

Mathis Wackernagel, quoted above, and William Rees first came up with the idea of the Ecological Footprint as part of Wackernagel's doctoral.

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In 2004 Edmonton had the second highest EF amongst Canadian cities, after Calgary.

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 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 Redefining