Contact
Patrick Caron
Cirad, Avenue Agropolis, TA 178 / 04, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5
France
Courriel
Environments and Societies
The Environments and Societies Department centres its research on the relations between agriculture, natural resource management and social dynamics, and the links with public policy.
It works on an individual farm, forest, region, country and even global level, studying the processes of innovation and coordination between players and social groups, and territories as the best places for implementing regulation. This means conducting surveys, polls and inventories and using specific techniques to represent and model complex systems. Its research draws upon concepts and tools from various disciplines and sets great store by the human and social sciences. It addresses the ways in which renewable resources—water, forests, rangelands and wildlife—are exploited and managed collectively, in relation to production. It also looks at the establishment and impact of public policy in terms of agriculture and the environment. Among other things, the aim is to enlighten decisions on public asset management and market organization, by establishing norms and supporting talks between players.