Eric Higgs
- January 10, 2024
- Ecologist
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Eric Higgs Biography
| Name | Eric Higgs |
| Birthday | Feb 7 |
| Birth Year | 1958 |
| Place Of Birth | Brantford |
| Home Town | Ontario |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Eric Higgs is one of the most popular and richest Ecologist who was born on February 7, 1958 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Eric Stowe Higgs (born February 7th 1957) is a professor at the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. He is trained in philosophy, ecology and environmental planning his research focuses on ecological restoration as well as ecological history as well as intervention ecology and the evolving nature of human life in a technologically advanced society.
Higgs has had shorter appointment within Science, Technology and Society (1995) and in the Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia (1996) as well as in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria (2000). He is Professor-at-Large of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia (2012-2014).
Higgs’ major conceptual contribution to understanding ecological restoration is his 2003 book, Nature By Design: People, Natural Process and Ecological Restoration (MIT Press).
Eric Higgs was Chair of the Society for Ecological Restoration International (now the Society for Ecological Restoration ser.org). He also served as Secretary of the Board between 1995 and 2001.
Eric Higgs Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Ecologist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Eric Higgs is one of the richest Ecologist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eric Higgs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Eric Higgs was born in Brantford, Ontario, to David P.J. Higgs as well as Barbara Isabel Stowe. The time he was in pre-school was North Delta, British Columbia (near Vancouver). He went to an elementary school for children located in Thornhill, Ontario (near Toronto) as well as Secondary school (Brantford Collegiate School and Pauline Johnston Secondary School) in Brantford. In 1976, he decided to turn away from what was an early fascination with engineering and physics. He decided to enroll in an Integrated Studies Program at the University of Waterloo. It was an Integrated Studies Program was student-driven and demanded self-motivation to finish an open program in subjects of the student’s choice. He wrote his undergraduate thesis, “A theory for the interaction of ecology and the social order,” which integrated the study of ecology and history with environmental and social philosophy. ethics. After graduating with the degree of bachelor of Independent Studies (B.I.S.) at the age of 1979, He set on an internship at the Hastings Centre (Institute for the Study of Ethics Societies, Ethics and Life Sciences) located in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, in which he worked on a research project on ecological and environmental ethics. He earned a master’s degree in the philosophy of science field in 1979 at in the University of Western Ontario (1980-81) as well as was engaged in ecological consultancy projects throughout Southern Ontario. He then returned back to his home at the University of Waterloo to a new doctoral program that was interdisciplinary that combines studies within the Department of Philosophy and the School of Urban and Regional Planning. With co-supervisors Lawrence Haworth, a social and moral philosopher, as well as Robert Dorney, an ecologist and environmental planner, Higgs completed his dissertation, “Planning, Technology and Community Autonomy,” in 1988.
His first post was in his Department of Environment and Resource Studies at the University Waterloo (1987-88). He relocated into New York City in 1988 to continue his research in the philosophy of technology at the Philosophy and Technology Studies Center located at the Polytechnic University of New York. Higgs was a professor the course at Oberlin College as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program in 1989-90 and then took an appointment in the tenure-stream of the brand-new Science, Technology and Society Program at the University of Alberta. The end of the program led to an official appointment to the Department of Philosophy (1990-92) followed by a joint appointment with both the departments of Anthropology and Sociology. He was given tenure and was promoted into Associate Professor at the age of 1995. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002. was appointed the Director (2002-2010) as well as Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, and elevated to Full Professor in 2005.
In 2000 he co-edited (with Andrew Light and David Strong) a volume of essays discussing the work of Albert Borgmann which was described by Paul Durbin as one of the first volumes that explicitly strives to establish the philosophy of technology as an academic subdiscipline with canonical texts [1].
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