The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new paper in its Sustainable Development Insights series that calls for new emphasis on accountability and implementation in global environmental governance (GEG). “Rio +20: Accountability and Implementation as Key Goals” was written by former Pardee Center Director […]
Boston University Prof. James McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology and agriculture of Africa, has been appointed Director, ad interim of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as of August 15. He takes over from Prof. Adil Najam, who recently returned to his native […]
Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Miquel Muñoz was interviewed by National Public Radio for a story broadcast on August 9 on the solar energy industry and green jobs in Spain. A native of Spain, Dr. Muñoz is an expert on renewable energy on a global scale. His research at the Pardee Center focuses on renewable energy […]
Robert M. Hollister, a Professor in the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences, will be in residence at Pardee House for the 2011-2012 academic year as a Visiting Faculty Fellow of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study for the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. As a Pardee Visiting Faculty Fellow, Prof. Hollister […]
Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Miquel Muñoz is the guest co-editor (with Sikina Jinnah of American University) of the August 2011 special issue of the journal Global Environmental Politics. The issue, titled “Climate Bandwagoning: The Impacts of Strategic Linkages for Regime Design, Maintenance and Death,” covers a range of topics that are subject to the international […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future concluded its 10-week 2011 Graduate Summer Fellows Program on Friday, August 5. The 2011 class of Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows included graduate students from the BU departments of Political Science (2), Religion (1), International Relations/Geography & Environment (1), Anthropology (1), […]
2011 Pardee Summer Graduate Fellow M. Chloe Mulderig has won a grant under the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program, which this year includes additional support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Mulderig is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University whose work focuses on youth, gender, piety, and the creation of […]
The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year was the result of a system of “complacency, collusion and neglect” – the same factors that were responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) in Alaska’s Prince William Sound 21 years ago, according to Boston College Law Professor Zygmunt […]
Dr. Rajan Gupta, a theoretical physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, gave a presentation titled Future Challenges of Global Energy Systems at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future lunch seminar on June 8. He was introduced by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee Center. Dr. Gupta spoke about the […]
Boston University has been designated an observer non-governmental organization (NGO) by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future serving as Designated Contact Point. This designation allows Boston University and Pardee Center affiliated researchers (including students) to gain official accreditation to […]