Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment at Boston University was invited to give a plenary presentation at the 2010 Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day (MALSI 2010). The theme of this year’s event was “The Future […]
The blog All Things Pakistan (Pakistaniat.com) founded and edited by Prof. Adil Najam – the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor of International Relations at Boston University – won top honors in the category of Current Affairs Blog in the First Pakistan Blog Awards. […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow, BU Professor of Geography and Environment, and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of the Earth, Prof. Cutler Cleveland, has written a comprehensive report on all aspects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also known as the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill or the BP Oil Spill) in the Encyclopedia of the Earth. […]
Boston University Provost Dr. David Campbell and Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam presented the findings and state of research on the “Mapping Complexity in Higher Education in Developing Countries” project to a meeting of the National Academies of Sciences Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) meeting in Chicago on Friday, May 21, 2010. Pardee Center Faculty […]
Dr. Miquel Munoz, Post-Doc Research Fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, wrote a guest post at the TripleCrisis blog introducing the idea of instituting an international lottery to raise resources for combatting global climate change. Titled “International Climate Change Lottery: a financing mechanism that could […]
Prof. Adil Najam and Prof. Henrik Selin, both professors of International Relations at Boston University and researchers at the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published an op-ed titled “A New Deal for Development” in The Express Tribune (May 15, 2010) and in New Strait Times (May 19, 2010). The […]
Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, and David Runnalls, President and Chief Executive Office of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) were invited to brief the committee of Environment Ministers from the Commonwealth countries on the forthcoming Rio+20 negotiations at a […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and a contributor to the TripleCrisis blog wrote an op-ed post on the forthcoming negotiations in preparation for the ‘United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,’ or the so-called Rio+20 Earth Summit. The Rio +20 summit is […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership (SDKP) hosted a seminar at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on “Governance for Sustainable Development: Institutional Challenges for Rio+20” on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Nearly 60 people attended in a packed conference room […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations, Geography and Environment at Boston University, was one of the plenary keynote speakers at the Third International Conference on Sustainable Development on “The Art of Farming,” in Brussels, Belgium, on May 11, […]