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Daniel Mittler is the international campaigner at
Friends of the Earth Germany
(BUND). His main campaign priorities are currently climate
change and preparations for the Rio+10
summit in 2002.
Daniel
was born in Germany. After finishing school at Pearson
College in Canada he studied Politics, Philosophy and African Studies
at Edinburgh University
(Scotland) and Queen's University (Canada).
From 1996-1997 he was press officer of the youthwing of Friends
of the Earth Germany in Bonn.
From 1997 onwards he has been a researcher and PhD student at the
Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. His PhD, which
he is still completing, analyses the implementation of local sustainability
policies in Edinburgh and Wuppertal. The cities' policies are being evaluated
using the environmental space terminology
developed by the Wuppertal
Institute and Friends
of the Earth. Prior to being employed by BUND, Daniel was Secretary
of Edinburgh
Friends of the Earth.
He is a regular contributor to LINK, the Friends
of the Earth International Journal. Daniel has also contributed regularly
to The
Planning Factory and is a Fellow of the Edinburgh-based Centre
for Human Ecology.
His favourite city is - Edinburgh; favourite
restaurant The Queen of Sheba (Ethiopian food) in Toronto; favourite
smell that of a forest after rain (especially an ancient western Canadian
forest) and hobbies include the usual middle class ones of theatre, cinema,
reading and art. He still tries to play the cello but rarely succeeds...
Publications
- The perils of growth and decline
Sustainable Development in Edinburgh and Wuppertal (Germany)
will be published in: Andy Thornley & Yvonne Rydin (Editors) Planning
in a Globalised World, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001
- Hijacking Sustainability?
Planners and the promise and failure of Local Agenda 21
will be published in: Antonia Layard, Sue Batty & Simin Davoudi
(Editors), Sustainable Development and Planning, E&F; Spon, London, 2001
- How insensitive are urbanites?
A view from Edinburgh
published in: Resurgence No. 204, January/February 2001, p. 26-28,
also see www.resurgence.org
- Nietzsche: an environmentalist
!? A footnote on an emerging debate. Submission to The Philosophers
Magazine.
- Reclaiming Our Genes. An Interview with
Vandana Shiva. Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva is an "international
green star" (Observer).
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- Review on Wolfgang Sachs’s book
“Planet Dialectics, explorations in environment and development”,
London, Zed Books, 1999, pp. 226 + xiv. more...
- Sustaining Edinburgh!? The Lord provost
Commission on Sustainable Development for the City of Edinburgh, Scottish
Affairs, No. 29, Autumn 1999 more...
- Environmental space and barriers
to local sustainability: evidence
from Edinburgh, Scotland, Local Environment, Vol. 4 No. 3, Winter 1999,
p. 353-365 more...
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- (Urban) Sustainable Development:
An Introduction. A discussion paper. Bartlett School of Planning, University
College London, December 1998
- Reducing Traffic!? A case study of
Edinburgh, Built Environment, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 1999, p.
106-117 more...
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Eclipse of the
German Greens
One year ago, the German Green Party reached power. To date the
party�s achievements are less than impressive. What happened to Die
Gr�nen? What does their story tell us about the challenges of power?
The
Ecologist, Vol. 29, No. 8, December 1999, 461-463.
- Review: Clone City,
Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture more...
- Review: Fragile Land: Scotland´s
Environment by Auslan Cramb. more...
- Review: Environment Scotland:
Prospects for Sustainability.
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- Review: The Earthscan Reader
in Sustainable Cities. more...
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Contact
E-Mail
[email protected]
Postal adress
Daniel
Mittler
International Campaigner
BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany)
Am Koellnischen Park 1
10179 Berlin/Germany
Personal mailing adress
Schleiermacherstr.
13
10961 Berlin Germany
Phone/ Fax
Tel +49
30 275864 68
Fax +49 30 275864 40
Website
www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/
people/phd/mittler.htm
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