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Forests and Societies - UPR Forêts et Sociétés
![Image multispectrale infrarouge de la canopée du nord Congo réalisée par drone à long rayon d'action. Produit du projet I-DROP cofinancé par le Fonds européen de développement régional © Sunbirds, CEA, Cirad, Interholco, Nature+, Université de Liège](https://www.cirad.fr/var/cirad/storage/images/_aliases/hero/3/0/2/4/64203-1-fre-FR/UMR-Foret-et-societe.jpg)
Multispectral infrared image of the northern Congo canopy taken by long-range drone. Product of the I-DROP project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. © Sunbirds, CEA, CIRAD, Interholco, Nature+, Université de Liège
The Forests and Societies Research Unit's main goal is to “help assess, define and implement policies, instruments and practices that:
- facilitate the adaptation of ecological and social systems to the constraints and opportunities resulting from global change,
- boost the sustainability of the services provided by tropical forests for the benefit of societies, on a local and global scale”.
Its research focuses on the following three main points of interest:
- natural or planted tropical and subtropical forests;
- the societies that make a living from and depend directly on forests, and transform them;
- the public policies and instruments that apply to forests.