{"id":52,"date":"2018-06-26T23:35:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2018-07-02T13:45:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T20:45:24","slug":"dr-jessica-dempsey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/people\/dr-jessica-dempsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jessica Dempsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geog.ubc.ca\/persons\/jessica-dempsey\/\">Dr. Dempsey (University of British Columbia)<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0studies economic and financial approaches to international conservation. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has led her to interview green financiers in fancy New York boardrooms and scientists in paper-stuffed academic offices, study investments in conservation cattle markets in rural Kenya, participate in endless international biodiversity negotiations, and examine the intricacies of ecological-economic models. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dempsey\u2019s book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprising Nature <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">traces the drive to produce a nature that can prove its worth in economic terms \u2013 that can compete in the marketplace and the cost-benefit accounting of modern governance. The book finds that this attempt is not one of triumphant ascent but one that faces enormous challenges: technical, scientific, and political. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dempsey\u2019s research is published in a wide range of journals and she has also produced a short animation on this topic (hotlink to it http:\/\/www.bioeconomies.org\/enterprising-nature\/). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her current research program is in dialogue with diverse methodologies and literatures, including political ecology, feminist political economy, economic geography, and green finance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Sample publications <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dempsey. J. 2016. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprising Nature. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wiley-Blackwell. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dempsey, J. 2015. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/epn.sagepub.com\/content\/47\/12\/2555.refs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fixing biodiversity (loss)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Environment and Planning A 47(12): 2555-2572. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dempsey, J. and D.C. Suarez. 2016. Arrested Development? The Promises and Paradoxes of \u201cSelling Nature to Save It&#8221;. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Annals of the American Association of Geographers <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">106(3):653\u2013671. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dempsey, J. 2013. Biodiversity loss as material risk: Tracking the changing meanings and materialities of biodiversity conservation. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geoforum <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">45: 41-51 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dempsey, J. and M. Robertson. 2012. Ecosystem services: tensions, impurities, and points of engagement within neoliberalism. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Progress in Human Geography <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">36: 758-779. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dempsey (University of British Columbia)\u00a0studies economic and financial approaches to international conservation. This has led her to interview green financiers in fancy New York boardrooms and scientists in paper-stuffed academic offices, study investments in conservation cattle markets in rural Kenya, participate in endless international biodiversity negotiations, and examine the intricacies of ecological-economic models. Dempsey\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/people\/dr-jessica-dempsey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Jessica Dempsey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58768,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/83"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biodiversitycapital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}