Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin met with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows on August 2 to talk about his work in international environmental politics. He discussed his perspectives on future of global environmental governance programs after the United Nations “Rio + 20” meeting in June, and his research on international governance programs covering toxic chemicals […]
The Pardee Director ad interim James McCann was invited to talk about the national drought on Vocalo.org 89.5 FM, in Chicago, on Tuesday July 24, 2012. Prof. McCann compared the drought to other regions in the world, and to other times of drought in American History. “What happens is really a result of how humans […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Muhammad Zaman, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at BU, met with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows on July 17. He discussed his educational and professional background as well as his current work designing an affordable tool that tests for counterfeit drugs for which has recently been nominated for a […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin and 2011 Pardee Summer Fellow Kristin Sippl attended the fourth session of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC4) to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury. The meeting was held June 27-July 2 in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The Pardee Center’s official observer status for the negotiations enabled the pair […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has appointed Janot Mendler de Suarez as a Visiting Research Fellow for the next two years. Mendler de Suarez’s expertise is in environmental policy and governance, especially marine policy, and her most recent work has been in the development of experiential games for […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Anne Short, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environment at BU, met with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows on June 27. She discussed her research on environmental policy and governance programs across various scales, from global to local.
Pardee Center Research Fellow Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri and Matías Vernengo co-authored her working paper, “Service-led growth and the balance of payments constraint in India: An unsustainable strategy,” in the Department of Economics Working Paper Series at the University of Utah. Click to read her paper here. Read her related June 29, 2012 blog post for Triple […]
On June 29, 2012 the Frederick S. Pardee Center co-sponsored a workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the compatibility between regulations for managing capital flows and the trading system lead by Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher. The event was held at CEDES (The Center for the Study of State and Society), a co-sponsor of the event […]
Each week the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows join a Pardee Faculty Fellow for lunch and discussion. On Friday, June 15th, the Summer Fellows met with Visiting Faculty Fellow Professor John Hammock, who talked about his experience working in the field of human development and his book Practical Idealists. On Tuesday, June 19th, Visiting Faculty […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher recently wrote about important safeguards for developing countries that were included in a leaked copy of the proposed investment chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Writing for the blog Triple Crisis; Global Perspectives on Finance, Development and Environment, Prof. Gallagher’s piece is titled “Tired of Waiting for a 21st […]