This year, the University of Savoie Mont Blanc and the Faculty of Law are hosting the ninth cycle of "Comparative Political Life Conferences," featuring researchers in the social sciences and humanities whose work sheds light on major contemporary socio-political issues.
The first lecture in the series will take place on Thursday, January 30, 2020, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., in Amphitheater 3 on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus, with Cheikh Abdoul Ahad Ba, temporary teaching and research assistant atthe University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens and researcher at the Pacte Social Sciences Laboratory in Grenoble.
He will speak on the topic of his thesis and the methodology behind it, which focuses in particular on the institutional obstacles that undermine the sustainability of ecosystem development trajectories: "Climate change and hydrological risk governance: which governance models? The case of the Senegal River estuary."
About Sheikh Abdoul Ahad Ba
He defended his thesis in Territorial Sciences at the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France) and Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis (Senegal) in October 2019.His PhD and research focus on climate uncertainties within socio-ecosystems, and he recently became co-editor-in-chief of the new journal NAAJ – African Journal on Climate Change and Renewable Energy – (https://www.revues.scienceafrique.org/naaj/). He will speak on the topic of his thesis and the methodology behind it, which pays particular attention to institutional barriers that undermine the sustainability of ecosystem development trajectories: Climate change and hydrological risk governance: which governance models? The case of the Senegal River estuary.
Learn more
- Open to the public, free admission
- Complete program for the 2020 series of "Comparative Political Life Lectures"
- Contact: Frédéric Caille, Associate Professor of Political Science at USMB