This Pardee Center Produced Video was filmed at the day-long event, “Games for a New Climate” held on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 and sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Study of the Longer-Range Future. The session followed a Task Force meeting of a small group of scholars and practitioners at the Pardee Center who […]
Pardee Center Director ad interim James McCann has been appointed Visiting Distinguished Professor at Universität Hamburg’s Hiob Ludolf Zentrum für Äthiopistik (Center for the Study of Ethiopia). In residence in Hamburg through early July, he is conducting research for his project on malaria landscape history and teaching a six-week seminar titled “African Environmental History: The […]
Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri authored a guest-blog piece in Triple Crisis, Global Perspectives on Finance Development, and Environment, titled, No Magic Wand: Liberalization and Structural Transformation in India. The piece touches some of the same themes in her recent Pardee Issues in Brief publication, Free Trade and Inclusive Development: Lessons from the […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin, and 2011 Pardee Summer Fellow Kristin Sippl, co-authored an article titled “Global Policy for Local Livelihoods: Phasing Out Mercury in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining” in Environment, Science and Policy for Sustainable Development Magazine. The article is an analysis of the international effort to reduce mining emissions in informal sectors […]
The Pardee Center hosted the 2012 Pardee Summer Fellows for a special orientation session Monday, May 14, 2012. The Graduate Summer Fellows will be working at the Pardee Center for ten weeks. Each of the eight students will write a research paper that will be considered for publication in one of the Center’s publication series. […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Muhammad Zaman was interviewed on WBUR’s Here and Now program with Robin Young on May 3, 2012 about his innovative use of teaching evaluation in his courses. Prof. Zaman collects student evaluations frequently. He says the feed back helps shape the course. To listen to the full interview click here. WBUR is […]
Post-doctoral Fellow Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri is the author of the Frederick S. Pardee Center’s 23rd Issues in Brief, Free Trade and Inclusive Development: Lessons from the Indian Experience. In the piece, Dr. Nabar-Bhaduri uses the experience of India as a basis to argue that despite encouragement from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to open […]
Prof. Nathan Phillips, Associate Professor of Geography & Environment at Boston University, joins the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a Faculty Fellow. His research focuses on physiological mechanisms that regulate water, carbon, and energy exchanges between plants/ecosystems and the environment, especially in the context of environmental change. More […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future selected seven outstanding Boston University graduate students as its 2012 Graduate Summer Fellows. The departments they represent include Biology, Economics, Geography and Environment, International Relations, Mechanical Engineering, Social Work, and Theology. Starting June 4, they will spend 10 weeks based at Pardee House […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 25 hosted a discussion led by Pardee Faculty Fellow Sucharita Gopal about the methods and findings of a recent Pardee Center Research Report titled Connecting the Dots: Information Visualization and Text Analysis of the Search Project Newsletters. Prof. Gopal co-authored the […]