Year: 2011

Henrik Selin Attends Stakeholder Consultation at the United Nations.

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 […]

Next Pardee Seminar (Oct. 18): Invasive Species and Future Ecologies

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 Gallagher Discusses Capital Controls on EconSouth Now

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 […]

Welcoming Reception for New Pardee Center Director, Prof. James McCann

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 […]

Muñoz Publishes on a Decade of Sustainable Development

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. […]

Pardee Task Force Report Published in Policy Research Journal

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, Speaks at Pardee Center Luncheon

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 […]

Adil Najam Presents Paper on Rio+20 in Johannesburg

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 […]