Daniel
Mittler CV
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).
- Review on Wolfgang Sachs’s book “Planet Dialectics, explorations in environment and development”, London, Zed Books, 1999, pp. 226 + xiv
- Sustaining Edinburgh!? The Lord provost Commission on Sustainable Development for the City of Edinburgh, Scottish Affairs, No. 29, Autumn 1999
- Environmental space and barriers to local sustainability: evidence from Edinburgh, Scotland, Local Environment, Vol. 4 No. 3, Winter 1999, p. 353-365
- (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
-
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
- Review: Fragile Land: Scotland´s Environment by Auslan Cramb.
- Review: Environment Scotland: Prospects for Sustainability
- Review: The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities
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Daniel Mittler
International Campaigner BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany)
Am
Koellnischen Park 1
10179 Berlin
Germany
Tel
+49 30 275864 68
Fax +49 30 275864 40
Email: [email protected]
Personal
mailing address: Schleiermacherstr. 13
10961 Berlin Germany
Tel +49 30 280 45952