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Mathis Wackernagel
Researcher at TUM Institute for Advanced Study
Publications - 97
Citations - 14759
Mathis Wackernagel is an academic researcher from TUM Institute for Advanced Study. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecological footprint & Sustainability. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 96 publications receiving 13371 citations. Previous affiliations of Mathis Wackernagel include The Advisory Board Company & Universidad Anáhuac México Norte.
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Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
Mathis Wackernagel,Niels Schulz,Diana Deumling,Alejandro Callejas Linares,Martin Jenkins,Valerie Kapos,Chad Monfreda,Jonathan Loh,Norman Myers,Richard B. Norgaard,Jørgen Randers +10 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 1980s and humanity's load corresponded to 70% of the capacity of the global biosphere in 1961, and grew to 120% in 1999.
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National natural capital accounting with the ecological footprint concept
Mathis Wackernagel,Larry Onisto,Patricia Bello,Alejandro Callejas Linares,Ina Falfán,Jesus Méndez Garcı́a,Ana Isabel Suárez Guerrero,Ma Guadalupe Suárez Guerrero +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a simple framework for national and global natural capital accounting, based on the ecological footprint concept, which can be compared with natural capital production at the global and national level, using existing data.
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Urban ecological footprints: Why cities cannot be sustainable—And why they are a key to sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an approach to assess the ecological role of cities and to estimate the scale of the impact they are having on the ecosphere, showing that cities are causally linked to accelerating global ecological decline and are not by themselves sustainable.
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Strategic sustainable development — selection, design and synergies of applied tools
Kossler Robert,Kossler Robert,B. Schmidt-Bleek,J. Aloisi de Larderel,George Basile,George Basile,J.L. Jansen,Ruediger Kuehr,P. Price Thomas,M. Suzuki,P. Hawken,Mathis Wackernagel +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a collective effort of scientists who have pioneered some of these tools and approaches and document essential elements for developing sustainability and how these elements relate to the application of the respective tools.