Full Day CIRANO-CIREQ-RRECQ Workshop on Ecoanxiety

25 April 2025 from 9:00 to 16:15 (CIRANO)
Speaker: Nessa Ghassemi-Bakhtiari (candidate au Doctorat à l’UQAM), Peter Graham (chercheur pluridisciplinaire à l’Université Concordia), Karel Mayrand (président-directeur général de la Fondation du Grand Montréal), Laura Sims (Université de Saint-Boniface)

This interdisciplinary day will close the CIRANO-CIREQ-RRECQ Workshops on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. It will welcome Karel Mayrand, president and CEO at Fondation du Grand Montréal, Nessa Ghassemi-Bakhtiari, PhD candidate at UQAM, Laura Sims, Université de Saint-Boniface and Peter Graham, multidisciplinary researcher at Concordia University.

WORKSHOP VENUE

CIRANO
1130, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, suite 1400
Montréal (Québec) H3A 2M8
Get directions here.

REGISTRATION
This event is free and is open to anyone interested in the topic. Due to limited seating, registration is required.

PROGRAM

9 h 00 – 9 h 30 : Welcome

9 h 30 – 9 h 45 : Welcome Remarks

9 h 45 – 10 h 45

Karel Mayrand, Changer le système, pas le climat : un antidote à l’écoanxiété

10 h 45 – 11 h 00 : Break

11 h 00 – 12 h 00

Nessa Ghassemi-Bakhtiari, L’action environnementale : «remède» de l’éco-anxiété?

12 h 00 – 13 h 00 : Lunch

13 h 00 – 15 h 00

Laura Sims, Environmental and sustainability education, participatory approaches to governance, eco-anxiety: exploring strategies considered beneficial for supporting humans’ and the earth’s well-being

15 h 00 – 15 h 15 : Break

15 h 15 – 16 h 15

Peter Graham, Is Ecoanxiety a misdiagnosis? An extended mind perspective

Organizers : Geir B. Asheim (Oslo University), Hassan Benchekroun (McGill University), Sophie Bernard (Polytechnique Montréal), Etienne Billette de Villemeur (Université de Lille, UQAM), Robert Cairns (McGill University), Justin Leroux (HEC Montréal), and Charles Séguin (UQAM).

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