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, published an op-ed in Pakistan’s largest English newspaper, The News (August 25, 2010). An excerpt from the article (read full op-ed here): Too many people seem […]
The Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, Prof. Adil Najam has been widely quoted in the international and Pakistani media on the devastating floods in Pakistan, the international humanitarian response to them, and on efforts for […]
As part of its South Asia 2060 project, the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-hosted a special high-level event and panel discussion on ‘Visions of a Region’s Future: South Asia 2060’ in Singapore . The event was held at the National Library of Singapore on August 12, […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Global Public Policy at Boston University presented a seminar at the Institute for South Asian Studies (ISAS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) on August 12, 2010. Prof. Najam spoke on the topic […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Dr. Pablo Suarez has joined the faculty of University of Lugano (Switzerland) – Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Management. During the week of August 9th, Dr. Suarez taught a course entitled “Innovations in climate risk management.” This course was built on the Pardee Center publication “Linking Climate Knowledge […]
Miquel Muñoz, Pardee Center Postdoctoral Fellow, participated in the UNFCCC negotiations held in Bonn, Germany from August 2-6, 2010. The negotiations included the eleventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC AWG-LCA 11) and the thirteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is hosting a two-day meeting of the Editorial Board of the online Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) on Aug. 9 and 10. Pardee Faculty Fellow Cutler Cleveland, a BU Professor of Geography and Environment, is the founding editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia, which was launched […]
A new book on China’s future – China Today, China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics, Economy and Society – edited by Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Prof. Joseph Fewsmith and based on a Pardee Center’s December 2008 conference has just been published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. The book is based on essays presented at the Pardee Center […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, contributed a book chapter to the collection Canada Among Nations 2009-2010: As Others See Us, edited by Fen Osler Hampson and Paul Heinbecker and published by the […]
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 and Geography and Environment at Boston University presented the report of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy (CDP), on which he serves, to the United Nations Economic and Social Council […]