Guest Speaker: Dr. Nathalie Gravel

Dr. Nathalie Gravel is a geographer and a professor at Université Laval in Québec City. She will be presenting on her water governance research in the Brazilian Northeast. In this semi-arid region, civil society and levels of government have been working together to improve water management strategies to counter water shortages, including rainwater harvesting and efforts to reduce water demand. Dr. Gravel will explore the paths taken by rural communities to move toward environmental governance and ecological citizenship in this region.