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IFLAS Occasional paper 5 - Early recollections as a research method for...
During a global pandemic practitioner wellbeing is an important topic, many people are working from home and delivering their usual services over video conferencing technologies. Whilst this may have...
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Facilitation for Deep Adaptation- IFLAS Occasional Paper 6
How can people be helped to engage each other in kind, courageous and generative dialogue?Where they help each other notice and transcend the fetters on their ability to connect and explore...
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International Scholars Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse
If you are a scientist or scholar you can still sign the letter before the end of 2020, and a final list will be published in January. A public letter signed by over 250 scientists and scholars from 30...
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Occasional Paper 1: Searching for Sustainability Leadership Limited progress towards the sustainability of either business or society despite decades of voluntary initiative is one reason why more...
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Enabling learning for wisdom and compassion in maternity care - new study
From Professor Jem Bendell, announcing publication of a new journal article:"Whereas medical knowledge and medical management practices have been crucial for improving the lives of billions of people,...
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Facts on Deep Adaptation in response to a New York Times style article
The Deep Adaptation Occasional Paper released in July 2018 has been downloaded over a million times and inspired a range of reactions, from full time climate activism to criticism of its analysis and...
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Over 500 sign #ScholarsWarning on collapse risk
The Scholars Warning letter on the risks of societal collapse was published in The Guardian and Le Monde in December 2020. By the end of the year, it had been signed by over 500 scientists and scholars...
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Peer-reviewed research in psychology on the impacts of discussing difficult...
IFLAS has released an Occasional Paper by psychologist Jasmine Kieft of the Climate Justice Union. "The Responsibility of Communicating Difficult Truths About Climate Influenced Societal Disruption and...
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Tuesday 23 March from 16:00-17:30The University of Cumbria’s Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) and the Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership (Business, industry and...
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People-Centred Health and Deep Adaptation - by Asiya Odugleh-Kolev of the...
This is a guest blog from a recent participant in the Sustainable Leadership and Deep Adaptation short course, offered by the University of Cumbria. Asiya Odugleh-Kolev is a technical officer at the...
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Monetary adaptation to planetary emergency: new paper addresses the monetary...
“There is no way out of our Covid debts with the current monetary system, unless we speed up our consumption and destruction of ecosystems which then increases the risk of future pandemics. It's a debt...
View ArticleCross-sector Collaboration and Partnership Working: Skills to futureproof...
Julie Hutchison, Specialist Lecturer, University of CumbriaIn looking at how to approach the ‘problems without passports’ that we now face, the knowledge and skills many of us learned a long time ago...
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Adaptation Delayism - preventing urgently needed dialogue and initiative
This is an excerpt from a new article in a peer-reviewed psychological studies journal that is published by a professional organization of psychotherapists. The excerpt provides critical analysis of...
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Hot Air from Glasgow Means it's Time for Radical Leadership - say over 200...
Over 200 academics from around the world have criticised the ‘corporate-capture’ of the Glasgow climate summit and are calling for a Real Green Revolution to soften the breakdown of societies. After...
View ArticleCross-sector Collaboration: developing skills to futureproof your career
by Julie Hutchison, Teaching Associate, University of Cumbria, Ambleside “Interesting content, delivered well, mix of activities, responsive...
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Toward radical responses to polycrisis: a review of reviews of the Deep...
By Prof Jem BendellSoon it will be a year since the book I co-edited on ‘Deep Adaptation’ to the coming breakdown of industrial consumer societies, mainly due to environmental stress, was published by...
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People will suffer more if professionals delude themselves about sustainable...
[From scholarswarning.net and embargoed until May 23rd, 2022, 1am EST]At the start of a United Nations summit on reducing the risks and impacts of disasters around the world, 100 scholars from 17...
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Sad but Necessary Lessons at Rio+30 and Stockholm+50
If you are over 40 years old, you might recall this cover from the first week of June in 1992. That means it is the 30th anniversary of that UN summit, which launched the sustainable development...
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At the COP27 climate summit of the UNFCCC, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the Scholars' Oath to the Future is launched. Within the oath, scholars apologise for their past caution and promise to all young...
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Cumbria University Professor hosts discussion of localised heat reduction at...
The 27th UN climate conference, this time in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, is underway. On November 7th at COP27, University of Cumbria Professor Dr Jem Bendell, hosted a presentation by the founder of the...
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The Influence of the Concept of Deep Adaptation in Academic Literature - by...
Dorian Cavé, November 21st, 2022. The Deep Adaptation (DA) paper was published by the University of Cumbria in July 2018. In the following 2 years it was downloaded over a million times and inspired...
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Six hard trends that drive food system breakdown – globally
An IFLAS Occasional paper analyses the trends driving the breakdown of the global food system. Endorsing the paper, Dr Katja Hujo from the UN Research Institute for Social Development (and lead author...
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Breaking Together – a freedom-loving response to collapse
“Breaking Together – a freedom-loving response to collapse” is published by Good Works. It is out in hardback, paperback, e-book, and audiobook. The paperback is directly available from the publisher...
View ArticleCreativity Beyond Hope - Prof Bendell talk at Paradiso Amsterdam
Scholars’ Warning co-founder Professor Jem Bendell gave a short presentation to attendees of ‘Free Cultural Spaces’ in Paradiso Amsterdam, where he shared some of the ideas behind his art project...
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Is it time for climatologists to apologise to activists? An open letter from...
Seventy scholars from 16 countries have signed a public letter in support of climate activists who were undermined by senior climatologists, ahead of those activists facing persecution and prosecution....
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