The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on‘Future Challenges: Science, Diplomacy and Development’ on Thursday, July 23, 2009, featuring Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Amb. Harry Barnes and Dr. Patricia Wrightson. The Seminar will be moderated by Prof. Jerry Keusch, Director of the Boston University Global Health Initiative […]
Professor Cutler Cleveland, a Pardee Faculty Fellow and professor in Boston University’s Department of Geography & Environment, discussed research methods and his work as editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows during an informal lunch gathering on July 15. Prof. Cleveland and the Fellows talked about how the internet and […]
Pardee Center Graduate Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf made a presentation on South Asian politics and strategy during the International Political Science Association’s (IPSA) 21st World Congress held July 12-16, 2009 in Santiago, Chile. Yusuf’s paper titled “Pakistan’s Failure at Democratic Consolidation: Explaining the Cyclical Pattern of Civilian and Military Rule” was part of a panel […]
Moeed Yusuf, Graduate Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, presented at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Nuclear Scholars Initiative meeting in Washington D.C. on July 10. Members of the Initiative are officials and scholars associated with all areas of the […]
Pablo Suarez, a visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Pardee Center, is a contributing author of a new report titled “Index insurance and climate risk: Prospects for development and disaster management”. Published through a partnership that includes the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN World Food Program, Oxfam America and reinsurance giant Swiss Re, the […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow, Prof. Cutler Cleveland, and Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, have been awarded a Mellon Foundation grant to study global energy transitions as part of the Foundation’s John E. Sawyer Seminars. The work will be additional to, but will build upon the project on the ‘Future of Energy’ that Professors Cleveland […]
Pardee Research Fellow Prof. John Hammock spoke about his recent book, Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting Paid, with the Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows during an informal lunch on June 22. This meeting was the first in a series of informal lunch discussion sessions the Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows will have with senior Pardee […]
Pardee Research Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin delivered an invited presentation to the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen on June 23 on "North American and U.S. Climate Change Politics and Policy." Based largely on a soon-to-be-published book that he co-edited called Changing Climates in North American Politics (MIT Press, September 2009), Prof. Selin’s presentation covered how […]
Pardee Research Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher submitted testimony last month to the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee’s Trade Subcommittee on the extent to which U.S. trade and investment treaties constrain the ability of poorer nations to deploy effective policies for sustainable development. Testifying on behalf of the Working Group on Development and Environment in […]
Pardee Postdoctoral Fellow Miquel Muñoz participated in the International Energy Conference 2009. The conference was held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, from June 22-24, 2009, and was jointly organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Global Forum […]