Membre du Conseil Scientifique (ECP) depuis 2021.
Expert invité à Transition Workshop depuis 2020.
Mathis Wackernagel est co-créateur de l’empreinte écologique et président de Global Footprint Network. Il a complété un doctorat. en planification communautaire et régionale avec le professeur William Rees à l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique, où sa thèse de doctorat a développé le concept d’empreinte écologique.
Mathis a également obtenu un diplôme d’ingénieur en mécanique de l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Suisse. Mathis a travaillé sur le développement durable avec des gouvernements, des entreprises et des ONG internationales sur six continents et a donné des conférences dans plus d’une centaine d’universités. Auparavant, il a été directeur du programme de développement durable chez Redefining Progress à Oakland, en Californie, et a dirigé le Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad à l’Université Anáhuac à Xalapa, au Mexique.
Mathis est l’auteur et a contribué à plus de 50 articles évalués par des pairs, de nombreux articles, rapports et divers livres sur la durabilité qui se concentrent sur le respect des limites des ressources et le développement de mesures de durabilité, notamment Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth; Partager l’intérêt de la nature ; Der Footprint: Die Welt neu vermessen; Empreinte écologique : gérer notre budget de biocapacité ; et le Rapport Planète Vivante du WWF International.
Les prix de Mathis incluent le prix mondial de la durabilité 2018, le prix IAIA Global Environment 2015, étant intronisé au Temple de la renommée de la durabilité ISSP 2014, le prix Nature Swisscanto 2013, le prix Blue Planet 2012, le prix Binding 2012 pour la conservation de la nature, le prix Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award de l’International Society for Ecological Economics, le prix international Zayed pour l’environnement 2011 (co-décerné avec le PNUE), un doctorat honorifique de l’Université de Berne en 2007, un prix Skoll 2007 pour l’entrepreneuriat social, le prix WWF 2006 pour la conservation Mérite et prix Herman Daly 2005 de la US Society for Ecological Economics. Il a également été sélectionné comme numéro 19 sur la liste en (riche) identifiant les 100 personnes les plus inspirantes dont les contributions enrichissent les voies vers un avenir durable (www.enrichlist.org). John Elkington a identifié Mathis parmi le tableau d’honneur “Zeronaut 50”, c’est-à-dire les pionniers de premier plan qui résolvent les problèmes les plus importants du monde à zéro. De 2011 à 2015, Mathis a également été professeur invité de la classe Frank HT Rhodes de 1956 à l’Université Cornell.
Member of the Scientific Council (ECP) since 2021.
Guest Expert at Transition Workshop since 2020.
Mathis Wackernagel is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and President of Global Footprint Network. He completed a Ph.D. in community and regional planning with Professor William Rees at the University of British Columbia, where his doctoral dissertation developed the Ecological Footprint concept. Mathis also earned a mechanical engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than a hundred universities. He previously served as director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in Oakland, California, and ran the Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad at Anáhuac University in Xalapa, Mexico. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability, including Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth; Sharing Nature’s Interest; Der Footprint: Die Welt neu vermessen; Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget; and WWF International’s Living Planet Report.
Mathis’ awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP), an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne in 2007, a 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit and 2005 Herman Daly Award of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics. He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures (www.enrichlist.org). John Elkington identified Mathis among the “Zeronaut 50” Roll of Honor, i.e., leading pioneers who are driving the world’s most significant problems to zero. From 2011 to 2015, Mathis was also the Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Visiting Professor at Cornell University.
Bibliographie:
- Wackernagel, Mathis and Bert Beyers, 2019. Ecological Footprint: Managing the Biocapacity Budget, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island. https://www.footprintnetwork.org/2019/09/04/18187/ (Italian translation 2020, different German version earlier 2011/2016)
- Bradshaw, Corey J. A. Paul R. Ehrlich, Andrew Beattie, Gerardo Ceballos, Eileen Crist, Joan Diamond, Rodolfo Dirzo, Anne H. Ehrlich, John Harte, Mary Ellen Harte, Graham Pyke, Peter H. Raven, William J. Ripple, Frédérik Saltré, Christine Turnbull, Mathis Wackernagel, Daniel T. Blumstein, 2021, “Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future”, Frontiers in Conservation Science / Front. Conserv. Sci. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full.
- Wackernagel, Mathis; Laurel Hanscom, Priyangi Jayasinghe, David Lin, Adeline Murthy, Evan Neill, Peter Raven. 2021. “The Significance of Resource Security for Poverty Eradication.” Nature Sustainability (accepted)
- Raven, Peter and Mathis Wackernagel, 2020, Defining Biodiversity will define our long-term success. Plant Diversity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2020.06.002
- Wackernagel, Mathis; Lin, David; Evans, Mikel; Hanscom, Laurel; Raven, Peter. 2019. “Defying the Footprint Oracle: Implications of Country Resource Trends.” Sustainability 11, no. 7: 2164. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/7/2164
- Wackernagel, Mathis, Laurel Hanscom and David Lin (2017) Making the Sustainable Development Goals Consistent with Sustainability. Front. Energy Res. 5:18. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2017.00018 http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenrg.2017.00018/full
Key Websites
- footprintnetwork.org — offers, as Global Footprint Network’s main site, all the background on the Ecological Footprint and its applications
- data.footprintnetwork.org — provides all key results for the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts on an open data platform
- footprintcalculator.org — allows individuals to estimate their own Footprint and their personal Overshoot Date. Entry point to the #MoveTheDate map
- overshootday.org — hosts Earth Overshoot Day and features solutions to #MoveTheDate
- financefootprint.org — highlights the relevance of Ecological Footprint and related results for the finance industry
- achtung-schweiz.org — applies the Ecological Footprint logic to Switzerland’s competitiveness
- chinafootprint.org and zujiwangluo.org — provide information about the Ecological Footprint in English and Chinese
- FoDaFo.org – Footprint Data Foundation is the newly established, independent organization to host the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. The intent is also to have this data organization be embraced by an alliance of international institutions, as explained at OnePlanetAlliance.org.
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