MARTINA THORA HERRMANN , Professeure agrégée de géographie, à l’Université de Montréal

• Responsable de programme de 1er cycle et des échanges étudiants, elle est membre du CSBQ, centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec.

Ses intérêts de recherche  portent sur : – l’impact des changements socio-environnementaux sur les espèces animales et végétales

– les répercussions sur les modes de vie, les cultures et les traditions des peuples autochtones dans les régions sub-polaires et polaires;

• – la protection des espèces menacées en intégrant les dimensions géographiques, écologiques et socioculturelles (approche bioculturelle de la conservation).

MARTINA THORA HERRMANN is Associate Professor at the Département de géographie at the Université de Montréal, Canada. She is working with indigenous peoples in polar regions on the social-cultural dimensions of human-environment interactions, the impacts of climate and environmental changes and extractive industries on societies, the place-people relationships, and the forms of values, knowledge and use practices of plants and animals by societies. She is co-editor (with Thibault Martin) of the book “Indigenous Peoples Governance of Land and Protected Territories in the Arctic” (2016, Springer). She was awarded chair holder of the Canada Research Chair in Ethnoecology and Biodiversity Conservation (2006-2011). She received a DPhil in geography from the University of Oxford (UK), and holds a DEA in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (France). Previously, she worked at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), and at the German Agency for International Development (GIZ) on issues related to bio-cultural diversity conservation policy.