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Andrew Simms
British environmentalist and political economist
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Andrew Simms is an author, analyst and co-director of the New Weather Institute. He is a research associate with the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and Fellow at the New Economics Foundation.[1]
Andrew Simms advocates the notion of ecological debt as an illustration of the degree to which economies operate beyond environmental thresholds,[2] and initiated the annual marking of the day when the world is estimated to enter 'overshoot'.[3]
Career
Andrew Simms also served as Policy Director for ten years, Communications Director, and established the Climate Change Programme for the foundation. He co-authored The Green New Deal and co-founded the Green New Deal Group,[4] the climate campaign onehundredmonths.org [5] and cooperative think tank the New Weather Institute.[6] He was a Principal Speaker of the Green Party.[7]
A political economist and environm
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Andrew Sims (psychiatrist)
British psychiatrist (1938–2022)
Andrew Sims (1938–2022)[1] was president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1990 to 1993.[2] He was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Leeds.[3] He wrote a textbook on descriptive psychopathology titled "Symptoms in the Mind" now titled "Sim's Symptoms in the Mind" and in its 6th edition written by Femi Oyebode.[4]
Early life and education
He grew up in Exeter and then went on to read medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Westminster Hospital Medical School. He completed his postgraduate training in psychiatry at the University of Manchester, and in Birmingham. In 1974 he earned his MD from the University of Cambridge for his thesis on prognosis in neurotic disorders.[1]
Personal life
He had a wife, Dr Ruth Sims who is also a psychiatrist and four children including Dr David Sims and 12 grandchildren.[1] A memorial service for Professor Sims was held on Friday 17 March at 2.30pm at St. George's Church, Great Georg
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Andrew Simms
Andrew Simms was Policy Director at nef (the new economics foundation) as well as the author of Ecological Debt: Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations, and the groundbreaking Green New Deal report. Andrew was one of the original organisers of the Jubilee 2000 Coalition debt relief campaign, devised the idea of ‘Ecological Debt Day,' also known as 'Overshoot Day,’ and was behind the onehundredmonths.org initiative. His groundbreaking reports on ‘Ghost Town Britain’ and ‘Clone Town Britain’, coined new terms and changed the debate on the impact of mass retailing on communities. He is also the author of: Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters, co-editor of Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? and author, with David Boyle, of The New Economics: A Bigger Picture. His new book published in 2010 is, Eminent Corporations: the Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation and includes a history of the tragic oil company, BP.
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