William E. Rees
Impact in
- Environmental Engineering top 0.2%
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
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- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Papers in
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- Environmental Impact and Sustainability 18
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis 17
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- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy 22
- Co-authors
- Mathis Wackernagel (4 shared papers)Meidad Kissinger (11 shared papers)Louise Manning (1 shared paper)William J. Ripple (1 shared paper)Paul R. Ehrlich (1 shared paper)Christopher Wolf (1 shared paper)Eileen Crist (1 shared paper)Stephen C. Trombulak (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Ecological Economics (9 papers)Environmental Impact Assessment Review (5 papers)Local Environment (2 papers)Energies (2 papers)Population and Environment (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- CanadaIsraelUnited States
In The Last Decade
William E. Rees
79 papers receiving 4.8k citations
William E. Rees's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 148
- Environmental Engineering 2.0k
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1.3k
- Global and Planetary Change 1.1k
- Transportation 351
- Building and Construction 619
Countries citing papers authored by William E. Rees
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Fields of papers citing papers by William E. Rees
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside William E. Rees, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 86 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out Hit paper breakdown → | 1992 | 1631 |
| 2 | Urban ecological footprints: Why cities cannot be sustainable—And why they are a key to sustainability Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 617 |
| 3 | 1997 | 431 | |
| 4 | 1996 | 330 | |
| 5 | 1979 | 195 | |
| 6 | 1995 | 152 | |
| 7 | 2013 | 138 | |
| 8 | 1999 | 117 | |
| 9 | The ecology of sustainable development. | 1990 | 114 |
| 10 | 2010 | 106 | |
| 11 | 1997 | 97 | |
| 12 | 2003 | 88 | |
| 13 | 2002 | 77 | |
| 14 | 1997 | 69 | |
| 15 | 2011 | 69 | |
| 16 | 2009 | 64 | |
| 17 | 2010 | 56 | |
| 18 | 2019 | 55 | |
| 19 | 2009 | 54 | |
| 20 | 2006 | 52 |
About William E. Rees
William E. Rees is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 86 papers that have together received 5.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (22 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (18 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (18 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (17 papers), Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems (6 papers), Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies (5 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (3 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Engineering (2.0k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (1.3k citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.1k citations), Transportation (351 citations) and Building and Construction (619 citations). William E. Rees has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, Israel and United States. Frequent co-authors include Mathis Wackernagel, Meidad Kissinger, Louise Manning, William J. Ripple, Paul R. Ehrlich, Christopher Wolf, Eileen Crist, Stephen C. Trombulak, David L. Trauger and Laura Westra. Their work appears in journals such as Ecological Economics, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Local Environment, Energies and Population and Environment.
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