Following his comprehensive Encyclopedia of Earth article on all aspects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Cutler Cleveland has been featured and quoted in various media on the topic. Prof. Cleveland wrote a post based on his report for The Oil Drum, a highly regarded energy […]
Pardee Graduate Fellow, Rachel Denae Thrasher, authored two articles with the recently reprinted Encyclopedia of Sustainability Volume II (The Business of Sustainability). Thrasher authored the articles on Fair Trade and Free Trade in the volume. The Business of Sustainability is a core resource for business and economics students, policy makers, members of the development community, […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Future Challenges of Global Energy Systems ‘ on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, featuring Dr. Rajan Gupta from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Seminar will be moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee Center. Dr. Rajan Gupta […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future kicked off its 2010 Summer Program today with the arrival of the 2010 batch of Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows. Launched in 2008 and formalized in 2009, this is the third year of the Summer Fellows program. The 2010 class of […]
Pardee Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Miquel Muñoz Cabré and Pardee Visiting Fellow Bernd Sommer published a joint piece on the recent 18th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 18). CSD 18 was held at UN Headquarters in New York, May 3-14, and convened under the topics of mining, chemicals, transport and sustainable consumption […]
Enrique R. Silva, Assistant Professor and Faculty Coordinator of City Planning and Urban Affairs from Boston University, was named as a Faculty Fellow of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Prof. Silva has been involved with the Pardee House since the beginning of 2010. In March 2010, […]
Pardee Center’s Post-doctoral Fellow, Dr. Julius Gatune Kariuki, has joined the Africa Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), a Pan-Africa think tank based in Accra, Ghana,as a Policy Advisor. In this position, Dr. Gatune will provide advice to Africa governments on how to transform their economies. He will also be involved in tracking Africa’s long-term trends […]
Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-range Future, presented at the United Nations during a side event held in the context of the first PrepComm for Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2012. The […]
Rachel Denae Thrasher and Kevin P. Gallagher, both fellows from the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published their research on 21st Century trade agreements in the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. The article builds upon and refines the arguments the authors had first made in […]
Prof. Kevin P. Gallagher, Faculty Fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Associate Professor of International Relations, wrote an Op-Ed for The Financial Times on the effects of US trade agreements on emerging markets. Titled “US trade agreements threaten emerging markets’ financial stability”, Prof. Gallagher […]