Sylvie Blangy is a researcher at the French National Research Center (CNRS, CEFE) in Montpellier, France. She works in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions in collaboration with the Cree, Inuit and Saami communities, developing community designed and led participatory-action research projects, tools and methodologies adapted to aboriginal contexts, addressing their concerns such as the social and cultural impacts of Industrial development, or the role of tourism in sustaining their culture, language and lifestyles.
Sylvie serves as a liaison person to develop research collaborations between the caribou Inuit of Baker Lake in Nunavut, Canada and the Saami reinder herders of Nordern Sweden. She is funded by the French Polar Research Institute (IPEV) looking at the impact of mining development on traditional lifestyles and human health
In 2010_2011, Sylvie was an associate professor at the Tourism Chair at UQAM, Montréal where she coordinated a project on adaptation strategies to Climate Change for the tourism industry.
She was previously an international consultant in ecotourism and sustainable tourism for 15 years.
Sylvie is the author of book “Le Guide des Destinations Indigènes” and the on line version in English (www.aboriginal-ecotourism.org).
Sylvie is the vice chair of the Social an Human Working Group of IASC, International Arctic Science Committee.
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