Jessica Dempsey

Drawing from feminist political economy and ecology approaches, the primary goal of Jess’s research is to explain the extinction paradox: escalating ecological losses in a time of unprecedented efforts to arrest them. Through a kind of applied critical research, her research aims to illuminate the structural forces that reinforce biodiversity loss and extinction, while pointing to specific, practical ways that these forces can be slowed. Her research and writing have been published in journals like Nature Ecology and Evolution, Antipode, the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Conservation Letters, as well as in places like the Guardian, The Architectural Review, and the Vancouver Sun.