A panel of experts discussed the merits and challenges of using microfinance tools as a means of assisting poor farmers in developing countries during the first Pardee House seminar of the new semester on January 21 (video here). This seminar was the second in a series of seminars related to food and development organized by […]
A small group of experts on various aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and North American integration will come together on March 20 for a one-day workshop at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. Titled "The Future of NAFTA," the meeting will be […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Energy and Environment: How is China Responding’ at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston) on Friday, March 6, 2009. The seminar will continue the discussion from the Pardee Center conference on China’s future held last […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Microfinance for Food and Development’ at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston) on Wednesday, January 21. The seminar is the first of the new semester and the second in a series of seminars related to […]
Transatlantic Energy and Environmental Politics, Comparative and International Perspectives, a new book co-edited by Pardee Center Research Fellow Henrik Selin was published in early March by Ashgate. Co-edited by Miranda Schreurs, Free University of Berlin, Germany, and Stacy D. Van Deveer of the University of New Hampshire, the book uses case studies on topics including […]
Dr. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was nominated by the United Nations’ Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon to serve on the UN Committee on Development Policy (CDP). In its second organizational meeting for the 2009 session, members of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) […]
Prof. Cutler Cleveland, a Pardee Center Faculty Fellow, presented the plenary address at the 12th Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference in Phoenix, AZ, on January 14, 2009. The title of his talk was “Collaboration in Knowledge Creation,” where he discussed the novel ways in which the Encyclopedia of Earth encourages collaboration and outreach on […]
Application deadline: Friday, March 20, 2009. The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellowship Program offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics that are aligned with the broad research interests of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. The Pardee […]
Pardee Research Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin is featued discussing the national security and human security implications of global climate change in a podcast recently produced and posted on You Tube by the Environmental Change and Security Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In the podcast, Prof. Selin talks specifically about the rapid […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was invited to deliver a lecture in the Hamilton Hall Lecture Series in Salem, MA. Speaking on what was the 200th birthday celebration of Charles Darwin as well as Abraham Lincoln, Prof. Najam emphasized that both these men […]