Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos is quoted in The New York Times on the benefits of new earth-imaging satellites for monitoring global change. According to the article, the new satellites offer frequent and inexpensive snap shots of earth.
The 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows completed the 10-week program on Friday, Aug. 9 and submitted their research papers. The eight Boston University graduate students from various departments and schools began work on their intensive research projects at the Pardee Center in early June. During the program, they participated in programs involving Pardee Faculty Fellows […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin presented a talk titled “The Minamata Convention: Challenges for Effective Treaty Implementation,” at the 11th International Conference on Mercury as Global Pollutant. The conference took place on July 28-August 2nd in Edinburgh, Scotland. Prof. Selin’s talk examined five sets of key provisions of the The Minamata Convention and argued the […]
The 2013 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows met with Faculty Fellow Enrique Silva over lunch on July 31. Prof. Silva is an expert in urban planning, and he spoke about his career path and research, which has included work in Chile, New England, and Haiti. The 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows are working on individual research projects […]
Faculty Fellow Susan Eckstein was interviewed in the Boston Globe’s Ideas section on July 28th, 2013 about How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands a book she edited with former Pardee Director Adil Najam. This book is the outcome of a Pardee Center Research Project, Diasporas and Development, and is a collection of writing by experts from […]
The Pardee Center’s Global Economic Governance Initiative, Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute, and the Inter-American Dialogue have launched the China-Latin America Finance Database, an interactive database that tracks Chinese lending in Latin America. The core research for the database is based on a report titled The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America, co-authored […]
By Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos President’s Obama recent speech on climate change, and the policies that will accompany it, have already received an enormous amount of public attention. The expected political responses accompanied the announcements as soon as talking points were made public. But after the initial excitement, what can now be said about […]
Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows participated in a gaming session lead by Pardee Visiting Research Fellow Pablo Suarez. The games are designed to demonstrate links between experiential knowledge and action in the context of climate risk. Pablo Suarez leads gaming sessions like this one with communities and groups of decision makers all over the world. He […]
The 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows presented their research to their peers and Pardee Center Director and staff on July 11-12. A the end of the summer The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows will produce a research paper to be considered for publication.
Former Pardee Center Director Jim McCann is quoted in The Guardian in an article titled Agriculture’s impact on malaria. The story cites a 2005 publication Prof. McCann co-authored on the connection between maize cultivation and malaria transmission in Ethiopia. Prof. McCann was also the principal investigator of a five-year study funded by the Rockefeller Foundation on […]