Dr. Athar Osama, a BU Pardee Center Visiting Fellow , and Dr. Adil Najam, the Director of the Pardee Center are amongst the co-authors of a review of Pakistan’s higher education policy reform published in this week’s Nature magazine. The article is the result of a review of Pakistan’s higher education reform process and is […]
A Boston Globe article titled “Fighting Global Warming with CIA?” quotes Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, as one of the specialists studying the links between climate change and security issues. Prof. Najam, who is a leading expert on human security and climate change, […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University, has been awarded one of Pakistan’s highest civilian decoration, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence), by the President of Pakistan. Prof. Najam was recognized for […]
As the 2009 Pardee Summer Graduate Fellowships came to a successful end the first week of August, the seven Fellows – all Boston University graduate students – say they found the interdisciplinary aspect of program and the Pardee Center itself to be very valuable. “Being surrounded by Fellows from different disciplines truly enriched my summer […]
A new book co-edited by Pardee Fellow Henrik Selin was published in August by MIT Press. Titled Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance, the book examines the varying political activity across North America designed to address climate change, from the municipal to the national levels. The book looks at the […]
Pardee Center Postdoctoral Fellow Miquel Muñoz co-authored a paper published in Environmental Research Letters on climate change negotiations and the prospects for the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be held December 2009 in Copenhagen. The paper, titled “Tripping points:barriers and bargaining chips on […]
At the Pardee House Seminar on July 23 titled “Future Challenges: Science, Diplomacy and Development,” a panel of experts said that the key to creating international scientific cooperation amongst developing countries with conflictual relationships will be the creation of well-developed and lasting personal relationships among international groups of dedicated professionals working on common and pressing […]
A meeting of some of the members of the Sustainable Development Knowledge Network being established by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) was hosted by the Pardee Center to discuss options for activities and actions by the network. The informal meeting took advantage of the presence of a number of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on’Future Challenges: Science, Diplomacy and Development’ on Thursday, July 23, 2009, featuring Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Amb. Harry Barnes and Dr. Patricia Wrightson. The Seminar will be moderated by Prof. Jerry Keusch, Director of the Boston University Global Health Initiative […]
Professor Cutler Cleveland, a Pardee Faculty Fellow and professor in Boston University’s Department of Geography & Environment, discussed research methods and his work as editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows during an informal lunch gathering on July 15. Prof. Cleveland and the Fellows talked about how the internet and […]