The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is collaborating with the Boston University Sustainable Neighborhood Laboratory to present a seminar on Thursday, Oct. 31 titled “Biogas: A Landing Pad for Natural Gas?” It will take place at Pardee House, 67 Bay State from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Prof. Nathan Phillips […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a meeting on Oct. 2 with staff who work on programs related to futures strategies and planning in the Public Service Division of the Office of the Prime Minister of Singapore. The visitors included Chin Lum Kwa, Head of the Centre for […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin was quoted in the September 27 issue of Science magazine about the new Minamata Convention on Mercury to be finalized in Japan this week. The article titled “With Pact’s Completion, The Real Work Begins,” is part of the journal’s special coverage on the treaty and mercury’s impact on the […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher presented a paper on September 26 at the Hyman Minsky conference on “Global Financial Reform: Five Years After the Crisis,” held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prof. Gallagher’s talk was titled “Regulating Capital Flows: Is the ‘System’ Working?” and was based on two Pardee Task Force Reports on […]
The Pardee Center and Boston University’s Center for Finance, Law & Policy are co-sponsoring a talk by the head of the central bank of Bangladesh on Thursday, Oct. 10 to mark the release of the new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled Remittance Flows to Post-Conflict States: Perspectives on Human Security and Development. The talk […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in the Issues in Brief series. “The Minamata Convention and the Future of Mercury Abatement” was written by Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin, an expert on global environmental governance issues who has been closely following the negotiations leading […]
2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Benjamin Twagira has won a research grant from the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Twagira, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Boston University, conducts research on the history of cities in Africa. The award will fund his field research […]
Pardee Faculty Fellows Susan Foster and Kevin Gallagher met with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows in two separate lunch meetings recently. Prof. Foster, a global health specialist who has done extensive field work in Africa, spoke about her research including most recently on non-communicable diseases in developing countries. Prof. Gallagher talked about his research […]
A new book titled The Future of South-South Economic Relations stemming from a Pardee Center 2010 conference of the same name was recently published by Zed Books. The book was edited by former Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam (now Vice Chancellor of Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan) and Pardee Center Research Fellow […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Les Kaufman has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Parker/Gentry Award in Conservation Biology presented by The Field Museum of Chicago. The award, presented annually since 1996, honors an individual, team or organization “whose efforts have had a significant impact on preserving the world’s natural heritage and whose actions […]