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Seasonal variability in spider communities in traditional and transgenic rice fields.
Published by Environmental Entomology
December 28, 2016
Authors:Lin, S., L. Vasseur and M. You. Environmental Entomology 45: 1-10. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvw002.
Linking time budgets to habitat quality suggests that beavers are energy maximizers.
Published by Canadian Journal of Zoology
August 10, 2016
Authors: Gallant, D., L. Léger, D. Berteaux, N. Lecomte and L. Vasseur. Can. J. Zool. 94: 671-676.
Looking at ecosystem governance as a way to achieve environmental sustainability and tackling “wicked” problems.
Published by In Sreekumari Kurissery, Rosario Turvey, I. Florin Pendea (Eds.). Environmental Sustainability. Wiley Publisher
October 13, 2016
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.
Published by Ecology and Evolution
November 27, 2015
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
Diamondback Moth (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) exhibits oviposition and larval feeding preferences among crops, wild plants, and ornamentals as host plants.
Published by Journal of Economic Entomology
July 8, 2016
Authors: Newman, K., M. You and L. Vasseur. Journal of Economic Entomology 109(2): 644-648, DOI: 10.1093/jee/tow002
Ecosystem Perceptions in Flood Prone Areas: A Typology and its Relationship to Preferences for Governance.
Published by Water
September 15, 2016
Authors: Baird, J., A. Dzyundzyak, R. Plummer, R. Bullock, D. Dupont, M. Jollineau, W. Kubik, G. Pickering, and L. Vasseur Water 8: 191. doi:10.3390/w8050191.
Contemporary water governance: navigating crisis response and institutional constraints through pragmatism.
Published by Water
August 19, 2016
Baird, J., R. Plummer, R. Bullock, D. Dupont, T. Heinmiller, M. Jollineau, W. Kubik, S. Renzetti, and L. Vasseur. Water 8: 224. doi:10.3390/w8060224
Chapter 7. Diversifying the garden: a way to ensure food security and women empowerment.
Published by In Fletcher, A.J. and W. Kubik (Eds). Women in Agriculture Worldwide: Key Issues and Practical Approaches. Gower Publishing,
July 13, 2016
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.
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 co-direction 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).
Recognition/Reconnaissance
UNESCO Chair - Community sustainability: from local to global | Professional
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.
Additional Titles and Affiliations
Steering Committee of the Commission for Ecosystem Management of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Niagara Land Trust
International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists
Ecological Society of America
Environmental Studies Association of Canada
Canadian Botanical Association
Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Sciences, Trade and Technology
Association de la francophonie à propos des femmes en sciences, technologies, ingénierie et mathématiques
Past Talks
Transitioning the sustainability of coastal rural communities facing climate change – A complex story - Panel
International Rural Sociology Association Conference
Toronto, August 14, 2016
UNESCO Week for Peace and Sustainable Development
Review Forum for the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD
Ottawa, Ontario, March 5, 2017
Governing Ecosystems to sustain development
IUCN World Conservation Congress
Hawaii, USA, September 4, 2016
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, December 12, 2016
Ecosystems sustain development
EcoForum Global
Guiyang, China, June 26, 2015
Expecting mother in a dangerous environment: is the support always there?
INWES Regional Conference Europe
Freising, Germany, November 5, 2016
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, March 9, 2017