William Rees

William Rees, ecological economist, is Professor Emeritus and former director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning in Vancouver, Canada. The originator of eco-footprint analysis, he has an extensive opus of peer-reviewed articles on the biophysical prerequisites for sustainability in an era of accelerating ecological change. In 2007 he was awarded a prestigious Trudeau Foundation Fellowship; in 2012 an Honorary Doctorate from Laval University, the Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics and a Blue Planet Prize.