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Living with Tropical Forests: Conserving, Enhancing and Restoring Tropical Forests for the Benefit of Rural People and Society at Large

With the death of Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, the scientific community has lost a leading figure in the defence of tropical forests.

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Living with the tropical forests

The Forests and Societies research unit aims to conserve, enhance and restore tropical forests for the benefit of rural populations and society in general.

Tropical forests in a few numbers

  • Forests cover about 4 billion hectares or one third of the Earth's land area and are home to t80% of the Earth's biodiversity..
  • Tropical forests represent half of the world's forests.
  • As a unique reservoir of biodiversity, tropical forests alone are home to half of the world's plant and animal species.
  • Tropical forests concentrate more than a quarter of the terrestrial carbon stock and 60% of the forest carbon stock. They therefore also play a key role in climate change mitigation.

Forests and Societies is an interdisciplinary research unit  

Our scientific project, inspired by social ecology, is to analyze and influence the interactions between environmental transformations and socio-economic and political transformations.

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Three research directions, that favour a territorial approach, in order to respond to the major current challenges of tropical forests

  • Ecosystem services
  • Territories and landscapes
  • Policies, markets and sectors 

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Tropical forests, sustainable forests, keeping biodiversity alive

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Read more: Podcast | Tropical forests, sustainable forests - Bringing biodiversity to life (1/6) | CIRAD (fr)

The unit book  

A book to rethink the relationship between humans and forests

« This book proposes a journey into the rainforest centered on humans and their deep, ancient ties to these special spaces. This journey follows the researchers, the local populations and all the actors of the tropical forests to transmit a fundamental message: the safeguarding of the tropical forests requires to invent a new co-existence between humans and tropical forests.».

Living with Tropical Forests | MUSEO Editions (museo-editions.com)

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Key figures of the unit

  • 52
  • Employed persons
  • 16
  • Persons employed abroad
  • 21
  • Trainees,PhD students
  • 72
  • Projects and expertises in progress
  • 80
  • Partners in France and abroad

       

A strong international presence

The unit is present in most tropical regions of the world, in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia

Thanks to its agents abroad and its numerous field missions, the unit intervenes in all the major tropical forest ecosystems of the planet. 

Find on the map the zones of implantation and action of the unit.

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