The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Office of the Dean of the BU College of Arts and Sciences and BU Latin America Studies Program co-organized a conference on US-Cuba policy on November 6, Friday. The conference, titled, Whither US Cuba Policy? is supported by a grant from the Christopher […]
Dr. Miquel Munoz, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, was the closing speaker at the International Seminar on Human Rights and Climate Change, organized by the Association of UN Friends in SPAIN (ANUE). This seminar was organized in parallel with the UN Climate […]
Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke on climate change on Catalonia’s main TV station, TV3 on 4 November, 2009. During his 10 minute interview, Dr. Munoz responded to the presenter’s questions on the possible impacts of climate change for Catalonia, […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Internationalization of Higher Education’ on Thursday, November 12, 2009, featuring Daniel Guhr, Ben DeWinter and Jay Halfond. The Seminar will be moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee Center. Dr. Daniel Guhr serves as Illuminate Consulting Group’s […]
The Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, was invited to present the keynote address to the 7th Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO-RT7) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Nov. 2-4). With over 800 palm growers, business executives, environmental and social activists and government functionaries […]
Pardee Summer Fellow, Arianna Fogelman, has been honored by the American Anthropological Association for the research she conducted as a 2009 Pardee Center Summer Fellow. Arianna, who focussed on issues of nutrition in Africa and wrote a paper titled “Weighing In: The Future of Malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa” while a Summer Research Fellow at the […]
Pardee Center’s Prof. Adil Najam, Dr. Miquel Muñoz and Rachel Thrasher published a research paper titled ‘Measuring the Negotiation Burden of Multilateral Environmental Agreements’ in the peer-reviewed journal, Global Environmental Politics (9[4]: 1-13). The paper focuses on the Global Environmental Governance (GEG) system, which has grown significantly since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment […]
A Call for Resilience Index for Health and Social Systems in Africa By Astier M. Almedom October 2009 (8 pages) Download PDF version. This policy brief explores the concept of resilience as it applies to health and social systems in Africa, and suggests that development of a multi-dimensional resilience index may help to understand and […]
Scholars from multiple disciplines and practitioners from around the world met at Boston University on October 27 – 28, 2009, to discuss how we can define success and sustainability of a higher education system in the context of a developing world. This workshop was supported by a grant from The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative and was […]
Prof. Saleem H. Ali, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, discussed his new book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and A Sustainable Future, at the Pardee House Seminar on 23 October, 2009. The talk was moderated by Professor Adil Najam, Director of the […]