Alan Marshall (scholar)

Alan Marshall is a New Zealand author and scholar working within the discipline of environmental studies. He has been noted as a key scholar in the field of environmental ethics. For his work in environmental scholarship, the University of Wollongong awarded Alan Marshall a doctorate degree. Marshall has undertaken projects for and within institutes all around Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region. For example, he's held fellowships at IAS-STS (Austria), Nizhni Novgorod State University (Russia), KUSTAR (Abu Dhabi), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), Prešov University (Slovakia), NIREX (UK), Curtin University (Australia), and AIT and Mahidol University (Thailand).

Alan Marshall developed a postmodern version of the Human–Nature relationship, one that throws into doubt the very concepts of 'Humanity' and 'Nature'.  Marshall's approach is heavily influenced by the science of ecology but has been criticized as privileging one school of ecology, i.e., 'community ecology', over others such as ecosystems science, systems ecology, and the ecology of Gaia.

In 2006, Alan Marshall founded The Ecomimicry Project, which tries to meld the science of ecology with Green innovation, environmental art, and the ethics of sustainability. Examples of designs that emerged from this project include:

These designs have been praised in ABC Radio National and by the Australian art press.

On 1 January 2013, Marshall started the intercontinental 'Ecotopia 2121' project, which details the 22nd century sustainable futures of 100 cities around the world. Ecotopia 2121 is a critical and creative response to the many mainstream 'Eco-city 2020' plans by various city governments around the world. In 2015, the master-class part of this project conducted at Mahidol University was awarded the 2015 'Kenneth M. Roemer Innovative Course Design Award' by the Society of Utopian Studies. Ecotopia 2121, the book of the project written by Marshall, has been included in Resurgence and Ecologist magazine's Books of the Year list. It was also the winner of the 'Future Forecasts' category of the 2016 Green Book Festival and a Silver Medalist at the 2017 Nautilus Book Awards.

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