Jessica Dempsey (ecologist)

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Jessica Dempsey is a Canadian political ecologist and a professor of geography at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her research focuses on political explanations for the global failure to halt ecological problems including biodiversity loss, climate change, and climate-related social problems. [1]

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Education and career

Dempsey has a bachelor's degree from the University of Victoria, and a master's degree and Ph.D. from UBC, completed in 2011 [1] with funding from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. [2]

She became an assistant professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, [3] before returning to UBC as a faculty member in 2016. [4]

Book

Dempsey is the author of Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity (Wiley, 2016). [5] It received the 2018 James M. Blaut Outstanding Publication Award of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Jessica Dempsey", Profiles, UBC Department of Geography, retrieved 2025-08-09
  2. ↑ "Jessica Dempsey, Scholar 2007", Alumni profiles, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, retrieved 2025-08-09
  3. ↑ "Dr. Jessica Dempsey", Responders: Climate forum, University of Victoria, 26 January 2015, retrieved 2025-08-09
  4. ↑ Meet the recipients of the 2025 Dean of Arts Mentorship Award, UBC Faculty of Arts, 21 May 2025, retrieved 2025-08-09
  5. ↑ Reviews of Enterprising Nature:
  6. ↑ CAPE Honors, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, 19 June 2012, retrieved 2025-08-09
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