William E Rees
Biographic Data
| ID | 1413631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Rees |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Rees |
| SIGNATURE | REES W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1439-3162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 221 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Overshoot and procreative ethics: At an ecological crossroads
Cities, energy and the uncertain future of urban civilization
To what extent is sustainability addressed at urban scale and how aligned is it with Earth's productive capacity
Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries
Ecological economics for humanity’s plague phase
Interregional sustainability: Governance and policy in an ecologically interdependent world
Exporting natural capital: The foreign eco-footprint on Costa Rica and implications for sustainability
Importing terrestrial biocapacity: The U.S. case and global implications
Assessing Sustainability in a Globalizing World: Toward Interregional Industrial Ecology
A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts
Footprints on the prairies: Degradation and sustainability of Canadian agricultural land in a globalizing world
Wood and non-wood pulp production: Comparative ecological footprinting on the Canadian prairies
An analysis of a brownlash report
Globalization, trade and migration: Undermining sustainability
Globalization and Sustainability: Conflict or Convergence
Unsustainability is an old problem - human societies have collapsed with disturbing regularity throughout history. I argue that a genetic predisposition for unsustainability is encoded in certain human physiological, social and behavioral traits that once conferred survival value but are now maladaptive. A uniquely human capacity - indeed, necessity - for elaborate cultural myth-making reinforces these negative biological tendencies. Our contempo…
An Ecological Economics Perspective on Sustainability and Prospects for Ending Poverty
Debate on the paper by David Waltner-Toews
Disease and health outcomes occur within a complex socio-ecological context characterized by feedback loops across space and time, self-organization, holarchies, and sudden changes in organization when thresholds are reached. Disease control programs, even if they are successful, may undermine health; conversely, programs in agriculture and economic development designed to improve health may simply alter disease patterns. A research and developme…
Forum: Monetary analysis: turning a blind eye on sustainability
Forum: Consuming the earth: the biophysics of sustainability
How should a parasite value its host
Perceptual and structural barriers to investing in natural capital: Economics from an ecological footprint perspective
Revisiting carrying capacity: Area-based indicators of sustainability
Urban ecological footprints: Why cities cannot be sustainable—And why they are a key to sustainability
Achieving Sustainability: Reform or Transformation?
We have reached a unique juncture in human ecological history, one requiring a radical reconfiguration of planning values and goals. The "ecological footprint" of the global economy is already larger than the planet, yet a quarter of humanity still lives in poverty, the human family is expanding by 90 million a year, and material demands everywhere are rising. An unlikely tenfold reduction in the energy and material intensity of economic activity…
Cumulative environmental assessment and global change
Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: What urban economics leaves out
Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out uses the concepts of human carrying capacity and natural capital to develop a framework to evaluate each city's "ecological footprint". It also argues that prevailing economic assumptions regarding urbanization and the sustainability of cities must be revised in light of global ecological change
Urban ecological footprints: Why cities cannot be sustainable—And why they are a key to sustainability
Revisiting carrying capacity: Area-based indicators of sustainability
Interregional sustainability: Governance and policy in an ecologically interdependent world
A role for environmental assessment in achieving sustainable development
Importing terrestrial biocapacity: The U.S. case and global implications
Cumulative environmental assessment and global change
Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries
South Wales and the March, 1284-1415: A Social and Agrarian Study
Carmarthenshire
The Charters of the Borough of Newport in Gwynllwg
Environmental assessment of hydrocarbon production from the Canadian Beaufort Sea
A role for environmental assessment in achieving sustainable development
Norman Wells impact funding: Boon or bust
The Norman Wells project involved a tenfold expansion of the Norman Wells oilfield and construction of a 324‐mm (12‐inch) pipeline extending 870 kilometres up the Mackenzie Valley to northern Alberta. Completed in May 1985 after years of controversy, Norman Wells expansion was the first of several large hydrocarbon production and transportation projects likely to be completed in the Mackenzie Valley by the end of the century. Because of a highly …
Atmospheric change: Human ecology in disequilibrium
This paper examines global atmospheric change as a problem in human ecology. The pre‐industrial composition of the atmosphere was a product of the co‐evolution of the living and non‐living components of the ecosphere, long maintained in steady‐state by self‐regulating biological processes. Recent rapid changes in atmospheric composition indicate that human economic activity is directly undermining these ecospheric equilibria and may permanently d…
State of the world 1990
Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: What urban economics leaves out
Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out uses the concepts of human carrying capacity and natural capital to develop a framework to evaluate each city's "ecological footprint". It also argues that prevailing economic assumptions regarding urbanization and the sustainability of cities must be revised in light of global ecological change
Achieving Sustainability: Reform or Transformation?
We have reached a unique juncture in human ecological history, one requiring a radical reconfiguration of planning values and goals. The "ecological footprint" of the global economy is already larger than the planet, yet a quarter of humanity still lives in poverty, the human family is expanding by 90 million a year, and material demands everywhere are rising. An unlikely tenfold reduction in the energy and material intensity of economic activity…
Cumulative environmental assessment and global change
Revisiting carrying capacity: Area-based indicators of sustainability
Urban ecological footprints: Why cities cannot be sustainable—And why they are a key to sustainability
Perceptual and structural barriers to investing in natural capital: Economics from an ecological footprint perspective
How should a parasite value its host
Forum: Monetary analysis: turning a blind eye on sustainability
Forum: Consuming the earth: the biophysics of sustainability
Debate on the paper by David Waltner-Toews
Disease and health outcomes occur within a complex socio-ecological context characterized by feedback loops across space and time, self-organization, holarchies, and sudden changes in organization when thresholds are reached. Disease control programs, even if they are successful, may undermine health; conversely, programs in agriculture and economic development designed to improve health may simply alter disease patterns. A research and developme…
Globalization and Sustainability: Conflict or Convergence
Unsustainability is an old problem - human societies have collapsed with disturbing regularity throughout history. I argue that a genetic predisposition for unsustainability is encoded in certain human physiological, social and behavioral traits that once conferred survival value but are now maladaptive. A uniquely human capacity - indeed, necessity - for elaborate cultural myth-making reinforces these negative biological tendencies. Our contempo…
An Ecological Economics Perspective on Sustainability and Prospects for Ending Poverty
Globalization, trade and migration: Undermining sustainability
Wood and non-wood pulp production: Comparative ecological footprinting on the Canadian prairies
An analysis of a brownlash report
Assessing Sustainability in a Globalizing World: Toward Interregional Industrial Ecology
A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts
Ecology (21 works) · Economics (21 works) · Geography (18 works) · Sustainability (18 works) · Environmental resource management (13 works) · Natural resource economics (13 works) · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (13 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Biology (10 works)