Pardee Faculty Fellow, Prof. Henrik Selin, attended a stakeholder consultation organized by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Regional Office North America (RONA), in preparation for the Rio+20 meeting in Brazil in June 2012. Prof. Selin presented on the Pardee Center Task Force on “Governance for a Green Economy” and also moderated a discussion about […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Tuesday, October 18, 2011, on ‘Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels and Weeds’. The seminar will feature Prof. Les Kaufman (BU Marine Program and Conservation International), Prof. Richard Pollack (BU Department of Biology) and […]
Kevin Gallager, Pardee Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of international relations at Boston University, discusses capital controls and the evolving school of thought regarding them on the latest podcast of EconSouth Now. In the podcast, Gallagher discusses the numerous challenges emerging-market economies face, among them the economic imbalances that large fluctuations in foreign investment can produce, complicating […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University hosted a reception to welcome the new Pardee Center Director, Prof. James McCann, on September 28, 2011. Prof. McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology and agriculture of Africa, was appointed Director, ad interim of the Frederick […]
Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Post-doctoral Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published an article in Vanguardia Dossier, a quarterly Spanish general public magazine. In this issue, devoted to the analysis of the decade since the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Muñoz wrote about the prospects and evolution of sustainable development. Dr. […]
Ulrike Heine (Photo by Kristin Baumert) Ulrike Heine, Ph.D. student from Justus Liebig University, Gießen/Germany and Visiting Scholar at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, presented at Brandeis University on September 19, 2011. Invited by Sabine von Mering, Director of the Center for German and European Studies, she presented […]
The individual papers in the March 2011 Pardee Center Task Force Report, “Beyond Rio + 20: Governance for a Green Economy” have been published as a special section in the September 2011 issue of the journal Review of Policy Research. The Pardee Center Task Force on Governance for a Green Economy was convened in Fall […]
Paulo Nogueira Batista, Junior, the Executive Director for Brazil and eight other Latin American countries at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was the featured speaker at a Pardee Center Luncheon on Friday, Sept. 16 at the Trustees Ballroom at Boston University. The event was sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a Pardee Center Task Force meeting on Sept. 16 on “Managing Capital Flows for Long-run Development.” Held in the Kenmore Conference Room at Boston University, the Task Force meeting was convened by Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher in collaboration with José […]
Prof. Adil Najam, former Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and co-author of the recent Pardee Center paper “Rio+20: Accountability and Implementation as Key Goals” presented this paper and some of the larger findings emerging from various Pardee Center activities related to Rio+20 at an Africa-wide preparatory […]