Prof. William Rees

William Rees is a bio-ecologist, ecological economist, former director and Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning. His early research focused on environmental assessment but gradually extended to the biophysical requirements for sustainability and the implications of global ecological trends.

He is known as the originator and co-developer of ecological footprint analysis – the expanding human eco-footprint is arguably the world’s best-known indicator of the unsustainability of our way of life, the techno-industrial society.