Category: LULI

Klinger Tours Nigeria’s Space Research and Development Agency

Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at the GDP Center at Boston University, recently toured Nigeria’s Space Research and Development Agency including its Centre for Space Transport and Propulsion. In 2005, Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved a […]

GDP Center Co-Hosts Seminar and Workshop Series on Remote Sensing in Tropical Forests

The Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the Global Development Policy Center  and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently co-hosted a three-day workshop and seminar series exploring the environmental science, policy, and land use impacts of remote sensing in tropical forests. The series, convened by Pardee Center Faculty Associate and LULI Associate Director Professor Julie […]

Julie Klinger Publishes Journal Article on Environmental Activism, Geological Survey, and Expansion of Satellite Networks in BRI

Julie Klinger, Associate Director of the Global Development Policy Center’s Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI), recently published a journal article environmental activism, geological survey, and the expansion of satellite networks in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the journal Territory, Politics, Governance on March 24, 2019. Klinger’s article, entitled “Environment, development, and security politics in the production […]

Julie Klinger Publishes Journal Article on Geopolitics and Outer Space

Julie Klinger, Associate Director of the Global Development Policy Center’s Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI), recently published a journal article on the intersection of environmental geopolitics and outer space in the journal Geopolitics on March 20, 2019. Klinger’s article, entitled “Environmental Geopolitics and Outer Space,” explores the concept of outer space through classical, critical, environmental, and feminist geopolitical theories […]

Klinger’s Book, “Rare Earth Frontiers”, Now Available Open Access and as Audiobook

Julie M. Klinger’s book, Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes, has recently been made available online through open access and as an audiobook on Audible.com. In the book, Klinger writes about the devastating damage to lives and the environment caused by the exploitation of rare earths. Rare Earth Frontiers received the 2017 Meridian Award from the American Association […]