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Professor | Polytechnique | Structure-flood interaction, ice jams and dam breakage |
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Professor | McGill | Shock and post-traumatic stress |
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Professor | INRS-ETE | Hydrological forecasting, water quality following floods, impacts of floods on the agricultural sector | ||
Professor | McGill | Flood protection, including commercial and DIY flood barriers, flood-proof buildings, and building codes |
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Professor | UQAM | Risk communication |
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Professor | UQTR | Hydrology in snow regime (snow and solid phase of water) | ||
Chair Professor | ETS | Flood dynamics (river and sea) and vulnerability of civil engineering structures | ||
Professor Emeritus | UQAC | Short, medium and long-term consequences of flooding on the mental health and social functioning of evacuees and responders, stresses experienced by them during and after floods, and psychosocial interventions in disaster situations |
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Professor | UQTR | Water quality and environmental impacts of flooding | guillemette.francois@gmail.com
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Professor | U. de Montréal | Construction in architecture, building and sustainability, urbanization issues in flood zones | ||
Professor | Dép. sciences infirmières, UQAR | Prevention, preparedness and recovery of individuals |
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Professor | UQAC | Flood dynamics (open water and ice jams and land use planning) |
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Professor | U. Sherbrooke | Impacts on short and long term physical and mental health, role of the health system and public health | Melissa.Genereux@USherbrooke.ca
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Professor | ETS | Snowpack hydrology |
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Professor | U. Laval | Impacts on financial assets and residential real estate. Cost-benefit analysis of risk sharing schemes (insurance, government assistance programs, relocation) | ||
Professor | UQAM | Meteorology, hyrdro-climatology, hydrometeorological risks and climate change | ||
Professor | Polytechnique | Impact of flooding on water quality and drinking water |
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Professor | U. de Montréal | Flood risk communication, organizational dimensions of flood management |
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Professor | UQAM | Psychology and environmental communication, psychosocial adaptation to climate change, ecoanxiety, psychosocial impacts, motivation, eco-citizenship.
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Professor | UQAM | Organizational resilience, emergency response, crisis management, risk management, civil security, business continuity, adaptation |
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Professor | U. de Montréal
| Planning, urban development, sustainable development, environment and sustainable development | isabelle.thomas.1@umontreal.ca
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Professor | U. de Montréal | Global health, climage change |
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Professor | UQAM | Flood Insurance in Quebec and Canada, financial assistance program for disaster victims from the Quebec government | ||
Pascale Biron | Professor | Concordia | Free spaces of watercourses, floods and development problems |