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Jem Bendell is a professor of sustainability leadership and founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria.[1] He has written about monetary economics and the need for 'Deep Adaptation' in response to environmental crises. He regularly comments on current affairs and approaches that may help humanity face climate-induced disruption.

Career

Bendell graduated from Cambridge University in 1993, beginning his career at the World Wide Fund for Nature. There, he helped to create the Forest Stewardship Council. He specialised on relationships between NGOs and business, pointing out the power inequities and the way in which business agendas tend to prevail over those of the non-profit sector.[2]

Changing strategy, he became involved in direct action and the anti-globalisation movement, later writing a United Nations report on the conflict between business and civil society.[3] After his time consulting for the United Nations, Bendell joined Cumbria University and founded IFLAS,[when?] soon expanding his focus to monetary reform and complementary currencies.[4]

In the 2017 United Kingdom general election, he provided strategic communication advice to the Labour Party.[5]

In July 2018, he published as paper entitled Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy.[6][7] Deep Adaptation is the concept purporting that humanity needs to prepare for fundamental disruption of its current civilisation paradigms, due to climate change, with a likelihood of complete societal collapse. Unlike climate change adaptation, which aims to adapt societies gradually to the effects of climate change, Deep Adaptation is premised on accepting abrupt transformation of the environment as a consideration for making decisions today. Vice noted that it had a large readership, having been downloaded more than 100,000 times[8][9] (and more than 600,000 times as of November 2019).[10] In March 2019 Bendell founded the Deep Adaption Forum to support practitioners and concerned citizens involved in preparing for what he considers as a very likely collapse of industrial civilisation.[10] The paper was not peer-reviewed and climate scientists Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt have dismissed it as pseudoscience.[10]

Bendell has published several academic papers and contributed chapters to books. He also occasionally contributes to Open Democracy[11] and The Guardian blog.[12]

Selected bibliography

  • McIntosh, Malcolm; Bendell, Jem (2013). "Chapter 14: Currencies of transition". The Necessary Transition: The Journey Towards the Sustainable Enterprise Economy. Greenleaf. ISBN 978-1-906093-89-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  • Bendell, Jem (2017-09-01). "Currency innovation for sustainable financing of SMEs: context, case study and scalability". Journal of Corporate Citizenship. 2017: 39–62. ISSN 2051-4700.
  • Bendell, Jem (2018-07-27). "Deep adaptation: a map for navigating climate tragedy" (PDF). Ambleside, UK. pp. 1–31.
  • Bendell, Jem (2019). "Chapter 11: Doom and bloom: adapting to collapse". In Extinction Rebellion (ed.). This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook. Penguin. pp. 73–80. ISBN 9780141991443.[13]

References

  1. ^ "IFLAS - University of Cumbria". Cumbria.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  2. ^ In the Company of Partners, ISBN 9781861340177, Accessed 20 March 2019
  3. ^ Barricades & Boardrooms: A Contemporary History of the Corporate Accountability Movement, SSN 1020-8216, Accessed 20 March 2019
  4. ^ "IFLAS - Jem Bendell, PhD - University of Cumbria". Cumbria.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  5. ^ James, Sam Burne. "Spinners, secondees and speechwriters: the people behind the General Election campaigns". Prweek.com. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  6. ^ Masoliver, Daniel (29 June 2019). "No flights, a four-day week and living off-grid: what climate scientists do at home to save the planet". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-18 – via www.theguardian.com.
  7. ^ Cann, Charlotte Du (28 October 2019). "Extinction Rebellion Is Creating a New Narrative of the Climate Crisis". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-18 – via NYTimes.com.
  8. ^ Tsjeng, Zing (2019-02-27). "The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It's Sending People to Therapy". Vice. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
  9. ^ Green, Matthew (11 April 2019). "Extinction Rebellion: inside the new climate resistance". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  10. ^ a b c Ahmed, Nafeez (22 November 2019). "The Collapse of Civilisation May Have Already Begun". Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  11. ^ "Author Page". Opendemocracy.net. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  12. ^ Bendell, Jem (18 April 2013). "Is sustainable business still possible?". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  13. ^ O’Keeffe, Alice (7 August 2019). "This Is Not a Drill review – an Extinction Rebellion handbook". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-18 – via www.theguardian.com.
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