Liette Vasseur

Professor and UNESCO Chair Brock University

  • St. Catharines ON

Working in Environmental sustainability, mainly sustainable agriculture and conservation

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Biography

Dr. Vasseur is a full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Brock University where she is also a member of the Women and Gender Studies program and the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, one of the five transdisciplinary spaces at the university. Since 2014, she holds the UNESCO Chair on Community Sustainability: from Local to Global at Brock. She currently leads the thematic group on Climate Change Adaptation of the Commission for Ecosystem Management of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Her research program is highly interdisciplinary and links issues such as community-based ecosystem management, climate change adaptation and resilience and sustainable agriculture and rural communities. In Canada it includes impacts of extreme events on meadow ecosystems and ecosystem/landscape sustainable development and resilience in Niagara rural communities. Her community-research work on climate change adaptation with the City of Greater Sudbury led her to receive in 2011 the Latornell Pioneers Award from Conservation Ontario. She was part of the codirection committee of a large project on Coastal Communities Challenges in the face of Climate Change, funded by the Social and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which looked at resilience and ecosystem-based adaptations in ten coastal communities of Atlantic Canada. She has produced over hundred publications and more than 200 presentations as a researcher. Her work focuses not only on Canada but also internationally such as in China, where she is a Minjiang Scholar at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. She is also involved in Ecuador on climate change adaptation and resilience (Paramos) as well as sustainable agriculture development (San Juan) in Ecuador with ESPOCH in Riobamba. Previously she worked in Burkina Faso on community-based conservation management. As the topic of women has also been a point of focus in her international research, she is involved in some women organizations. She is currently the President of the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology (CCWESTT) and the President-Elect of the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES).

Industry Expertise

Renewables and Environmental
Research
Agriculture and Farming
Women
Training and Development
Floriculture and Horticulture
Education/Learning
Biotechnology

Areas of Expertise

Plant biologist
Pest management
Ecosystem Management
Ecosystem services
Conservation Biology
Landscape Ecology
Plant-insect interactions
Ecology
Gender Education and Work
International Development
Sustainable Agriculture

Accomplishments

UNESCO Chair - Community sustainability: from local to global

2014-04-18

UNESCO Chairs are nominated by the universities and approved by the Secretariat of UNESCO in Paris and renewable every four years. The Chairs are recognition award in research and education allowing the holders to further work in these areas at the international level.

Education

Université de Sherbrooke

BSc Ecology

Ecology

1985

Université du Québec à Montréal

MSc Biology

Ecology

1987

Queen's University

PhD Biology

Evolutionary ecology

1991

Affiliations

  • Environmental Studies Association of Canada
  • Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Sciences, Trade and Technology
  • Association de la francophonie à propos des femmes en sciences, technologies, ingénierie et mathématiques
  • Ecological Society of America
  • Canadian Botanical Association
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Languages

  • English
  • French

Event Appearances

UNESCO Week for Peace and Sustainable Development

Review Forum for the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD  Ottawa, Ontario

2017-03-05

Climate Change in Canada: What happens when the weather is out of control and ice caps melt?

our Burlington Third Age Learning (3ALB) -11th series of lectures, focusing on Big Questions…Big Ideas…All Over the Map  Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario

2017-03-09

Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change leading towards sustainable solutions.

Conference on resilience and climate change in Ecuador.  Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador

2016-12-12

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Partnerships

Pest management

Minsheng You Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

2017-03-10

Large project on sustainable agriculture and pest management in China

Articles

Chapter 7. Diversifying the garden: a way to ensure food security and women empowerment.

In Fletcher, A.J. and W. Kubik (Eds). Women in Agriculture Worldwide: Key Issues and Practical Approaches. Gower Publishing,

2016-07-13

Vasseur, L. 2017. Chapter 7. Diversifying the garden: a way to ensure food security and women empowerment. In Fletcher, A.J. and W. Kubik (Eds). Women in Agriculture Worldwide: Key Issues and Practical Approaches. Gower Publishing, Surrey, UK. Published July 13, 2016: 103-115.

Looking at ecosystem governance as a way to achieve environmental sustainability and tackling “wicked” problems.

In Sreekumari Kurissery, Rosario Turvey, I. Florin Pendea (Eds.). Environmental Sustainability. Wiley Publisher

2016-10-13

Vasseur, L. 2016. Looking at ecosystem governance as a way to achieve environmental sustainability and tackling “wicked” problems. In Sreekumari Kurissery, Rosario Turvey, I. Florin Pendea (Eds.). Environmental Sustainability. Wiley Publisher: 114-125.

Genetic differentiation analysis of the Plutella xylostella populations across the Taiwan Strait based on identification of microsatellite markers.

Ecology and Evolution

2015-11-27

Authors: Ke, F., S. You, W. He, T. Liu, L .Vasseur, C. Douglas and M. You.
Ecology and Evolution 5(24): 5880-5891. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1850

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