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THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées - AgroParisTech - CNRS - CIRAD - EHESS
Founded in 1973, the CIRED is a joint research unit common to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), AgroParisTech, Ecole des ponts (ENPC) and the Agricultural Research Centre for Development (CIRAD).
The scientific activity of CIRED has remained tied to the theme developed from its origin, namely "environment-development harmonization", and deals more specifically with the study of relationships between environment, natural resources management and economic develoment, essential topics for the sustainable development issue.
The research tradition of the teams has furthermore been marked by the desire to maintain a permanent tension between theoretical contribution and empirical work, following an interative sequence of problem statement, applied research, theoretical feedback and problem re-statement.
The overall approach by the CIRED and the nature of the problems tackled have progressively led it to face not only a classical academic evaluation but also the validation of its expertise by professionals in the relevant domains and decisions makers.
The CIRED had in 2007, 47 researchers and associated personnel, as well as 18 PhD students.
