Ambassador In-kook Park, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations and Co-Chair of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) discussed the issues and prospects for Rio+20 in a luncheon roundtable with Pardee Center Summer Fellows on July 1st. During his remarks, Ambassador Park noted the key issues relating to […]
Prof. John Hammock, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, discussed his work on human development and poverty – and on his book ‘Practical Idealists’ – during an informal lunch […]
Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Pardee Center, and Kandeh K. Yumkella, UNIDO Director-General Pardee Center Fellow Dr. Miquel Muñoz participated in the Ministerial Energy on Energy and the Green Industry, held in Vienna, Austria, on 21–22 June. The meeting, held in parallel to the UNIDO-organized Vienna Energy Forum, brought together ministers and high-level officials from over 70 […]
Pardee Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Miquel Muñoz, in collaboration with Dr. Elisa Morgera and Dr. Kati Kulovesi, has published a paper, titled “Environmental integration and multi-faceted international dimensions of EU law: Unpacking the EU’s 2009 climate and energy package,” in the journal Common Market Law Review. In this 64-page paper, Kulovesi, Morgera, and Muñoz analyze in […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was one amongst a number of co-sponsors of a unique, train-the-trainers workshop on water diplomacy held at Tufts University in Boston from June 13 – 17, 2011. The workshop was organized by Tufts University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Water Diplomacy […]
Enrique Silva, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the City Planning and Urban Affairs Program at Boston University and Pablo Suarez, Associate Director of Programs for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, and an advisor for Oxfam America’s Private Sector Team spoke to the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows during an informal lunch at Pardee House on […]
This summer, the Pardee Center is hosting a visiting scholar, Daniele Brombal. He is a doctoral candidate in East Asian Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and is currently carrying out a research project aimed at analyzing institutional determinants of public healthcare policies in contemporary rural P.R.China. Between 2007 and 2010, Daniele was Research […]
Dr. Julius Gatune, Visiting Fellow, and Prof. Adil Najam, Director, have published a paper in the journal Foresight based on the 2010 Pardee Center conference “Africa 2060: Good News From Africa”. The conference was part of the ongoing program of research on Africa 2060 at the Boston Univeristy Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future kicked off its 2011 Summer Program today with the arrival of the 2011 batch of Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows. Launched in 2008 and formalized in 2009, this is the third year of the Summer Fellows program. The 2011 class of […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and the Environment, spoke at the Ethiopian national dialogue on the forthcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD). The Ethiopian national dialogue was held in Addis Ababa […]