Liette Vasseur
Posted by Jayne Watson
on Sep 03, 2014
The Rotary Club of Fonthill was happy to have as a guest speaker this week Ms. Liette Vasseur, UNESCO Chair for Community Sustainability.
She is a biologist and member of Brock's Environmental Sustainability Research Centre. Liette, a Biological Sciences Professor, has a wonderful background that she brings to her position including Thematic Leader for the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientist; and President of the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Sciences, Trade and Technology. She is also a Minjiang Scholar at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in China.
Liette gave an informative talk on Community Sustainability, local to Global. She shared many topics from Ecosystems degradation and the solutions, Climate Control to Sustainable Development in many countries, such as China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Ecuador.
