Walter R. Stahel

Walter Rudolf Stahel ( born June 5, 1946 in Zurich ) is a Swiss architect.

Life

. Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, in 1971, he was influential in the development in the field of sustainability by for " service - life extension of goods - reuse, repair, remanufacturing, update technology, philosophical industrialized economies ". apply He co-founded the Product Life Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, a consulting firm, dedicated to the development of sustainable strategies and measures after receiving recognition for its award -winning paper, " The Product Life Factor ' in 1982. His ideas and those of similar theorists led to the what is now called the circular economy, the industry takes the reuse and service life extension of goods as a strategy of waste prevention, regional job creation and resource efficiency to reduce known to wealth from resource use decouple consumption, so to dematerialize the commercial sector is. cycle management is owned by the state and lead China Coal industry as a guiding principle adopted. During the 1990s, Stahel extends this vision to published the sale of goods such services as the most efficient strategy of circular economy. He described this approach in his 2006 Book The performance economy, with a second expanded edition in 2010 contains 300 examples and case studies. He is currently working closely with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on further promotion of his ideas with economic actors.

In 2005 Stahel was nominated as a member of the " Consumer Commission " of Prime Minister (PM ) Oettinger, head of the government of Baden -Württemberg, Germany and runs his chapter on sustainable development. In 2007 he was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chinese population, resources and environment. Stahel. In a number of functions in the service of the European Commission Since 1988 he has been Head of Risk Management Research of the Geneva Association, a think - tank of the world insurance industry.

In 2005 Stahel was nominated visiting professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey in Guidford. On November 1, 2012 Stahel was awarded an honorary doctorate award of Doctor of the University ( DUniv ) from the University of Surrey. Later in November 2012 Stahel Full Member of the Club of Rome was nominated.