Provided by Wikipedia Jem Bendell is an emeritus professor of sustainability leadership with the University of Cumbria in the UK. He is best known for originating in 2018 the concept of "deep adaptation" for individuals and communities anticipating (or already coping with) the consequences of ongoing climate change. In 2019 he founded the Deep Adaptation Forum to support peer-to-peer communications in developing positive responses at the individual and community levels to societal disruptions induced by climate change.
![Bendell presenting a keynote address on [[climate anxiety]] to the [[UK Council for Psychotherapy]].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Jem_Bendell_Keynote_Address.png)