William E. Rees - Academic, Policy and Research Interests

Academic, Policy and Research Interests

Rees is a founding member and recent past-President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. He is also a Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and a co-investigator in the "Global Integrity Project," aimed at defining the ecological and political requirements for biodiversity preservation. His present book project examines factors that seem to drive the repeating cycle of human societal collapse. A dynamic speaker, Rees has been invited to lecture on areas of his expertise across Canada and the US, as well as in Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, the former Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden and the UK.

Rees' academic interests are in the following subject matter fields:

1. Human bio-ecology and the ecological basis of civilization
2. Ecological economics: Biophysical realities in resource allocation and distribution
3. Global change and the dynamics of societal collapse.

Rees also presently serves on the National Board of Advisors of the Carrying Capacity Network, an organization that advocates immigration reduction to achieve U.S. population stabilization and resource conservation, and calls for "national revitalization attained through fostering education, family, community self-reliance, tradition, and national unity."