Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien par­tic­i­pates in the annu­al meet­ing of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Science

Pro­fes­sor and Direc­tor of the Cité-ID Liv­ing Lab, Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien par­tic­i­pat­ed in a sci­en­tif­ic pan­el enti­tledUrban Resilience and Emer­gency Response: The Cli­mate Change Per­spec­tive at last week’s annu­al meet­ing of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence. The pan­el was orga­nized by the Office of the Chief Sci­ence Offi­cer of Québec and explored recent inno­va­tions to enable the evi­dence-based devel­op­ment of urban resilience. A sum­ma­ry of the pan­el is avail­able here.

Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien then led a work­shop on the devel­op­ment of the Urban Sci­ence Advice Group with a group of 20 researchers and prac­ti­tion­ers. The estab­lish­ment of this group is being coor­di­nat­ed by the Fonds de recher­ché du Québec in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the ENAP’s Cité-ID Liv­ing Lab, at the request of the Inter­na­tion­al Net­work for Gov­ern­ment Sci­ence Advice (INGSA).

The next INGSA con­fer­ence will take place in Mon­tréal next September.