Speaking at a opening plenary discussion on global media and climate change in Bonn, Germany, Pardee Center Director Adil Najam said that if the world is going to be saved from the threat of global climate change it is the developing countries of the South, including large ones like China and India, who will save […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin gave an invited presentation at the Regional Environmental Governance Workshop organized in Geneva, Switzerland, by the University of Geneva. The workshop was designed to foster constructive encounters and fruitful exchange between scientists and practitioners with an active interest in the environmental dimensions of regional governance. Prof. Selin’s talk was […]
Pardee Center Director and Boston University Professor of International Relations, Geography and Environment, Prof. Adil Najam, has been elected by the Fellows of the Human Development and Capability Asosciation to serve as a new Fellow of the HDCA. According to the notification from HDCA, Prof. Adil Najam was elected as a HDCA Fellow because of […]
Prof. Stephanie Watts, a Pardee Faculty Fellow and associate professor at Boston University’s School of Management, discussed her research on social responsibility among corporations during an informal lunch gathering on June 17. Prof. Watts and the Fellows talked about how to use technology as empowerment tools to educate the public on business practices and to […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Geography, Environment and International Relations at Boston University, presented a series of lectures related to international sustainable development policy and to international negotiations as part of two trainings for mid-career policy professionals and advanced […]
Post-doctoral Fellowships: (1) Global Development (2) Global Governance The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University invites applications for up to two post-doctoral research fellows for year-long appointments each, beginning in Fall 2010. Researchers working on issues related to (a) global development and/or (b) global governance are encouraged […]
Following his comprehensive Encyclopedia of Earth article on all aspects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Cutler Cleveland has been featured and quoted in various media on the topic. Prof. Cleveland wrote a post based on his report for The Oil Drum, a highly regarded energy […]
Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, Prof. Adil Najam, will be featured as a plenary speaker at a major global media conference organized by Germany’s Deutsche Welle to be held in Bonn, Germany, 21-23 June, 2010. The theme for this year’s conference is “The […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, gave a keynote lecture on ‘Future Challenges for Climate Change and Development’ at the TiasNimbas Business School at Tilburg University – one of the leading European business schools in the Netherlands – to the executive MBA program (IIM) […]
Dr. Rajan Gupta, a theoretical physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, gave a presentation titled Future Challenges of Global Energy Systems at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future lunch seminar on June 8. He was introduced by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee Center. Dr. Gupta spoke about the […]