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Laboratories

The Climate-Environment-Society consortium relies on the expertise of 16 research laboratories in the Paris area, five of which have joined forces within a federative structure focused on the environmental sciences: the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace.

LPMAA: Molecular Physics Laboratory for the Atmosphere and Astrophysics -

LPMAA's research thematic is molecular physics and its applications in atmospheric sciences and astrophysics.
It belongs to the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace.

SISYPHE -

Work at SISYPHE looks at the water cycle and the cycles of elements transported by water in catchment basins, integrating their surface and underground components. More specifically, the issues tackled concern: water resources and their management; the biochemistry of continental waters; human impacts; hydrological and archaeological applications of geophysical exploration; energy resources and storage of waste (including CO2).

CECO: Laboratory of Econometrics of Ecole Polytechnique -

Research carried out at the Laboratory of Econometrics are centered around three areas: mathematical methods (optimization, game theory), public economics (voting analysis, normative economics, economic philosophy, environmental economics, urban economics, international economics), and business and markets (industrial economics, organization theory, risk prevention and crisis management). The laboratory takes part in the work of the Chair for Business Economics (which is in particular undertaking a project on industrial competitiveness and climate-related policies) and of the "Sustainable Development" chair.

LMD: Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology -

The laboratory focuses on the mechanisms, evolution and prediction of meteorological and climate phenomena. Its three research areas are: the study of the interaction between the various components of the climate system; the detection and understanding of change and natural variability in climate, on scales ranging from seasons to decades; and the study of the global effects of human activity on the environment.
LMD is a laboratory belonging to the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace.

LADYSS : Social dynamics and reconstruction of spaces -

Its work is devoted to the study of current processes and forms of social and spatial restructuring in relation to globalisation, urbanisation and environmental issues.

CEMOTEV : Centre for the Study on Globalisation, Conflicts, Territories and Vulnerabilities -

Centre Alexandre Koyré -

Centre Alexandre Koyré (CAK) for the history of science and technology

Research and teaching at the CAK include the history of mathematics ; physical sciences and technoscience ; the human sciences and medicine ; science, knowledge and globalisation ; the environment, climate and development ; actors, institutions and governance ; biology and natural history ; and the earth sciences. It also focuses on sources and archives in the history of science.

The Centre’s research stretches mainly from the early modern period to the present. Broadly, two major approaches or perspectives guide its work : the one seeks to grasp the past in its singularity, while the other strives to give historical depth to the present. Regardless of the period in which the researchers specialize or of the speciality to which they belong, e.g. history, sociology, or epistemology, the research done at the CAK-CRHST aims to increase our understanding of science, knowledge and technology in society in historical perspective. This gives the Centre its thematic and methodological coherence.