Marie Fall is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Québec, Chicoutimi, which is part of the network of 10 university teaching and research institutions throughout the region of Quebec. She teaches geography and sustainable planning, international cooperation, regional studies and interventions, and regional development, and is responsible for the Laboratory for Applied Studies and Research on Africa, which is a space for partnerships and collaborations between researchers and stakeholders on projects carried out in West African countries. Her fields of research and interventions focus on the challenges of international development; participatory governance of territories and resources; the exploitation of traditional knowledge; vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience of coastal and island communities to climate change; socio-ecological transition; and, recently, living together in the regions. The gender and development dimension is a central axis of her research. [email protected]
