Miriam Kennet

Miriam Kennet
Residence Reading, England
Nationality British
Education Environmental Science and Economics
Alma mater Mansfield College, Oxford
Occupation CEO of the Green Economics Institute
Awards Nomination for One World Action's 100 Most Powerful Women (2011)
Website
http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/

Miriam Kennet is an economist and founder of the Green Economics Institute.[1][2][3] She is editor of the International Journal of Green Economics,[4][5] the first peer-reviewed international journal which proposes and fosters discussion on all aspects of green economics.[6][7] In October 2011, Kennet was nominated as one of One World Action's 100 Most Powerful Women.[8][9]

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Overview

Kennet has studied and researched disciplines of economics and environmental science at South Bank University, the University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes and Keele University.[10][11] She is a member of Mansfield College and the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University.[12][13] During her career, Kennet has worked to turn green economics from an idea into a robust academic discipline.[14] She works to inspire governments and organisations to use green economics as a medium to find innovative new solutions to current world problems. Kennet regards green economics as "Progressive Economics, reclaiming economics for all people everywhere - women, nature, other species, the planet and its systems".[15][16][17]

Activity

Kennet has taught at many universities around the world, spoken at several international conferences and published a multitude of academic papers. She has made speeches and workshops on Green Economics in several European countries, including Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Poland, France, United Kingdom and Spain,[18] and has taught, trained and lectured most recently at Oxford University, Bath University, Cambridge University, Birkbeck College, London University, Slubice University Poland, Frankfurt am Oder and European University Germany, among others.[19]

She has attended a multitude of important events and conferences as a guest speaker. Kennet gave a speech at the UK Parliament on Green IT and "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair".[20] She teaches Sustainable Development to UK Government Departments as part of the National Government School.[21] Kennet also attended the Copenhagen COP15 Conference on Climate Change as part of an international delegation involved in developing a green economic analysis of climate change policies.[22]

Kennet has been published in the Harvard School Economics Review,[23] the "International Journal of Green Economics"[24][25] She is editor of Ashgate academic publishers series on green economics and sustainable growth and a series with Gower Management Publishers.[26] She Kennet is also a regular guest speaker on BBC Radio, and has been featured of programmes including "Wake Up to Money" programme. In 2011, BBC Oxford broadcasted a radio programme on Kennet's life and work.[27]

Green Economics

Miriam Kennet is an expert on green economics, after having obtained Bachelor's and Master's degrees in areas including economics and environmental science, and editing the "International Journal of Green Economics."[28] As the co-founder, director and CEO of the Green Economics Institute, she publishes several books, articles and magazines every year centered around green economics research.[29] According to Kennet, a definition of green economics is:

"Green Economics is the green movement's challenge to main stream orthodoxy in economics and it is gaining ground globally and in the corridors of power as the best alternative to solving climate change, the credit crunch, poverty and biodiversity losses. It is about providing reclaiming the practices and policies of economics, for all people everywhere, nature, other species, the planet and its systems. It is about provisioning for the needs, impacts, effects and responsibilities, for everyone and everything on the planet."[30]

Publications

References

  1. ^ http://www.greenparty.org.uk/people/miriam-kennet.html
  2. ^ http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-miriam-kennet
  3. ^ http://oneworldaction.wordpress.com/100-unseen-powerful-women/business-and-entrepreneur/miriam-kennet/
  4. ^ http://www.greenparty.org.uk/people/miriam-kennet.html
  5. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/page29.html
  6. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/page29.html
  7. ^ http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijge
  8. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/
  9. ^ http://oneworldaction.wordpress.com/100-unseen-powerful-women/business-and-entrepreneur/miriam-kennet/
  10. ^ http://www.micandidate.eu/candidate.aspx?idcandidate=2705
  11. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/page34.html
  12. ^ http://www.micandidate.eu/candidate.aspx?idcandidate=2705
  13. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/page34.html
  14. ^ http://oneworldaction.wordpress.com/100-unseen-powerful-women/business-and-entrepreneur/miriam-kennet/
  15. ^ http://www.gef.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/Green_Economics_Conference_flyer_July_2011.pdf
  16. ^ http://www.inderscience.com/www/conf/2012jul_ijge_growth_rio_uk_110.pdf
  17. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/
  18. ^ http://www.greenparty.org.uk/people/miriam-kennet.html
  19. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/page34.html
  20. ^ http://greeneconomicsinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/institute-director-miriam-kennet-speaks-at-uk-parliament/
  21. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/page34.html
  22. ^ http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-miriam-kennet
  23. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/papers/HCERWinter2008.pdf
  24. ^ http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=158&year=2009&vol=3&issue=2
  25. ^ http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=158&year=2009&vol=3&issue=3/4
  26. ^ http://www.micandidate.eu/candidate.aspx?idcandidate=2705
  27. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00g27ml
  28. ^ http://www.greenparty.org.uk/people/miriam-kennet.html
  29. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/page34.html
  30. ^ http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/page550.html

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