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<title>BUniverse: Videos tagged study longer-range future </title>
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<title>Future Challenges: Global Development Beyond the Financial Crisis</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:10 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After the upheaval of last year's global financial collapse and the resulting stimulus spending, what comes next for the world's major economies and struggling nations? Three panelists, moderated by Pardee Center Director Adil Najam, debate the role of the International Monetary Fund, the United States, East Asia, and other players in reconstructing the world economy.

Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Center for the Study of Asia on October 9, 2009.]]></description>
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<title>Decentralization and Development: Making Local Governance Deliver</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:51:29 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future holds a seminar titled Decentralization and Development: Making Local Governance Deliver, part of its ongoing seminar series. Panelists John Gerring, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of political science and a Pardee Center faculty fellow, Dilip Mookherjee, a CAS professor of economics and director of the Institute for Economic Development, and Ghazia Aslam, of the World Bankâ€™s Social Development Department and a doctoral candidate at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, discuss local governance and its effects on democracy and development. The seminar is moderated by Adil Najam, Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy and director of the Pardee Center.

Hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on Monday, March 1, 2010]]></description>
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<title>Is the Future Renewable?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:11 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Three experts explore the possibility of a world powered by renewable energy - the likelihood of that scenario, how the transition should be made, and whether renewable energy can help to slow climate change. The panel is moderated by Adil Najam, director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.

Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on November 17, 2009.]]></description>
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<title>Future Challenges: Governance and Sustainability</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:08 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Adil Najam, director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, moderates this seminar on how we can govern three complex problems - forest, food, and climate management - without compromising human well-being.

Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on June 5, 2009.]]></description>
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<title>Human Development: A Retrospective and Prospective</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:18 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jeni Klugman delivers the Pardee Distinguished Lecture, focusing on the Human Development Reports (HDR) commissioned by the United Nations Development Program in 1990. She discusses how these reports serve as an independent assessment of the progress that countries have made in promoting human development.

Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future on February 23, 2010.]]></description>
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<title>Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:10 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Would the world be a better place if we somehow curbed the world's desire for material consumption? Professor Saleem H. Ali discusses his new book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future, at the Pardee House Seminar. The talk was moderated by Professor Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S.  Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.

Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on October 23, 2009.]]></description>
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<title>Future Challenges: Science, Diplomacy and Development</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:09 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Zulfiqar Bhutta, professor and chair of the department of pediatrics and child health at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, Harry Barnes, former U.S. ambassador to Romania, India, and Chile, and Patricia Wrightson, director of the Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security at the National Academies, speak about the challenges of public health science, science diplomacy, and the importance of international scientific cooperation in Central Asia, South Asia, and East Africa. Gerald Keusch, a School of Public Health professor of international health and associate dean for global health and Medical Campus associate provost for global health, moderates.

Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on July 23, 2009.]]></description>
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<title>Can We Afford the Future? The Economics of a Warming World</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:05 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is no question that global warming exists, but there is little action among the government and society at large to take steps to combat it. Economist Frank Ackerman argues that the standard economic models used to calculate the global cost of protection, versus the cost of destruction of the planet, focus on an incomplete cost-benefit analysis.

Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 28, 2009.]]></description>
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<title>Energy and Environment: How Is China Responding?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:02 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The seminar focuses on the longer range implications of China's response to energy and environment challenges - not only for China, but for the region and the world. It is part of the Pardee Center's ongoing discussion following a conference on China's future held in December 2008. Joanna Lewis of Georgetown University makes a presentation, followed by a commentary by Xiaowei Xuan of Harvard University.

Hosted by Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Boston University Latin American Studies Program on March 6, 2009.]]></description>
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