Pardee Center Director ad interim, Prof. James McCann and Pardee Center Faculty Fellow, Prof. Enrique Silva, attended the Global Health Summit on October 28, 2011.Organized by the Center for Global Health and Development (CGHD) at Boston University, the summit brought together experts in global and urban health from BU and from around the world to […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has released a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. Titled “Capital Account Regulations for Stability and Development: A New Approach,” the paper was co-authored by Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Kevin Gallagher with Stephany Griffith-Jones and and José Antonio Ocampo of Columbia […]
A new Issues in Brief (No. 21) published by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future examines the role of youth in “the Arab Spring” from the perspective of cultural, social, and market forces holding back a generation on the cusp of adulthood. “Adulthood Denied: Youth Dissatisfaction and the Arab […]
On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds”. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Prof. Les Kaufman(BU Marine Program and Conservation International), Prof. Richard Pollack (BU Department of Biology) and Prof. […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow, Prof. Henrik Selin, has been appointed Book Review Editor for Environmental Policy for the Review of Policy Research journal. Henrik Selin is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, Faculty Fellow at the Pardee Center, and Visiting Scholar at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.
Pardee Faculty Fellow, Prof. Henrik Selin, attended a stakeholder consultation organized by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Regional Office North America (RONA), in preparation for the Rio+20 meeting in Brazil in June 2012. Prof. Selin presented on the Pardee Center Task Force on “Governance for a Green Economy” and also moderated a discussion about […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Tuesday, October 18, 2011, on ‘Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels and Weeds’. The seminar will feature Prof. Les Kaufman (BU Marine Program and Conservation International), Prof. Richard Pollack (BU Department of Biology) and […]
Kevin Gallager, Pardee Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of international relations at Boston University, discusses capital controls and the evolving school of thought regarding them on the latest podcast of EconSouth Now. In the podcast, Gallagher discusses the numerous challenges emerging-market economies face, among them the economic imbalances that large fluctuations in foreign investment can produce, complicating […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University hosted a reception to welcome the new Pardee Center Director, Prof. James McCann, on September 28, 2011. Prof. McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology and agriculture of Africa, was appointed Director, ad interim of the Frederick […]
Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Post-doctoral Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published an article in Vanguardia Dossier, a quarterly Spanish general public magazine. In this issue, devoted to the analysis of the decade since the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Muñoz wrote about the prospects and evolution of sustainable development. Dr. […]