Yannick Hémond has been Professor of Resilience, Risk and Disasters in UQAM’s Department of Geography since 2019. He is responsible for UQAM’s graduate programs in resilience, risk and disasters. He is a member of the scientific committee and co-leader of the “resilience to crises and disasters” axis of the Canadian Observatory on Crisis and Humanitarian Action (COCHA). He is also a certified Associate Member of the Business Continuity Institute and a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator.
His research interests cover risk management, response capacity and organizational resilience. The underlying concepts are complexity, creativity, problem-solving and improvisation. The aim is to develop tools to support managers in making decisions and assessing their organization’s ability to function in a dynamic environment.
Expertise
- Improvisation in disaster management
- Complex problem solving
- Creativity
Selected Publications
Hémond, Y. and Robert, B. (2012), “Preparedness: the state of the art and future prospects”, Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 21 No. 4, pp. 404-417.
Heinzlef, C., Robert, B., Hémond, Y., & Serre, D. (2020). Operating urban resilience strategies to face climate change and associated risks: Some advances from theory to application in Canada and France. Cities, 104, 102762.
Robert, B., & Hémond, Y. (2022). Outils de gestion intégrée des risques pour les municipalités basés sur l’approche par conséquences. Les inondations au Québec: Risques, aménagement du territoire, impacts socioéconomiques et transformation des vulnérabilités.
Audet, F., Coulombe, C., Hémond, Y., & Mouton, G. (2022). Gestion de la crise de la COVID-19: Comment se compare le Québec au reste du monde? In F. Audet, R. Bernier, & S. Paquin (Eds.), Gouverner en temps de pandémie: L’État québécois face à la crise (1st ed., pp. 43–60). Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Coulombe, C., Hémond, Y., Audet, F., Alalouf-Hall, D., & Mouton, G. (2022). Les leçons (non) apprises de la gestion de crise de la COVID-19 par l’État québécois. In F. Audet, R. Bernier, & S. Paquin (Eds.), Gouverner en temps de pandémie: L’État québécois face à la crise (1st ed., pp. 205–222). Presses de l’Université du Québec.
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