From November 28 to December 9 2011, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Durban, South Africa. The Conference will include the 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and associated meetings COM/MOP 7, SBSTA 35, SBI 35, AWG-LCA […]
Alejandro Avenburg joins the Pardee Center as a Graduate Fellow. He is a doctoral student in Political Science at Boston University. His areas of interest are comparative politics and Latin American politics. He began work at the Pardee Center in the summer of 2011 studying the relationship between corruption and political participation in Latin America […]
Prof. James McCann, newly appointed Director, ad interim, of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was quoted in Global Times about the Horn of Africa famine. Prof. McCann opined on the severity and why its impact was worse than before. He also spoke about the need for longer […]
The Pardee Center is hosting a visiting scholar, Ulrike Heine, from Germany in September 2010. Ulrike Heine is a student from Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen and a PhD-candidate at the Research Group on the topic “Transnational Media Events from Early Modern Times to the Present” funded by the German Research Foundation. While at the Pardee Center, Ulrike will […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Les Kaufman has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Parker/Gentry Award in Conservation Biology presented by The Field Museum of Chicago. The award, presented annually since 1996, honors an individual, team or organization “whose efforts have had a significant impact on preserving the world’s natural heritage and whose actions […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently named four Boston University faculty members as Pardee Center Faculty Fellows. Prof. Carlos Blanco from the Department of International Relations, Prof. Les Kaufman from the Department of Biology, Prof. David Scott Palmer from the Departments of International Relations and Political Science, and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new paper (No. 14) in The Pardee Papers series. Africa’s Technology Futures: Three Scenarios was written by 2008-2009 Pardee Visiting Graduate Fellow Dirk Swart. This paper uses a scenario planning approach to explore two questions about Sub-Saharan […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new paper in its Sustainable Development Insights series that calls for new emphasis on accountability and implementation in global environmental governance (GEG). “Rio +20: Accountability and Implementation as Key Goals” was written by former Pardee Center Director […]
Boston University Prof. James McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology and agriculture of Africa, has been appointed Director, ad interim of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as of August 15. He takes over from Prof. Adil Najam, who recently returned to his native […]
Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Miquel Muñoz was interviewed by National Public Radio for a story broadcast on August 9 on the solar energy industry and green jobs in Spain. A native of Spain, Dr. Muñoz is an expert on renewable energy on a global scale. His research at the Pardee Center focuses on renewable energy […]