On Tuesday, March 30, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Future Challenges: Dealing with Disasters‘. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Dr. Pablo Suarez, Prof. Anuradha Mukherji , and Prof. Enrique R. Silva, and was moderated by Prof. Adil […]
BU@Sustainability and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will co-host a panel discussion on Monday, April 5, 2010, at 4pm to offer an inside look at the orads leading to and from Copenhagen, featuring Boston University faculty and students who attended the UN Climate Change Conference. Speakers from the […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environemnt at Boston University was invited to present a special lecture on water resource management challenges in Pakistan at the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) in […]
An eminent group of international scholars came together to discuss current and future trends in the Gulf region in terms of people, money and ideas at a 2-day conference on March 25 – 26 titled “Transnational Currents in the Gulf: People, Money & Ideas”. Sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
Pardee Visiting Scholar, Dr. Pablo Suarez, participated in the Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies from March 22-26, 2010 in California. His presentation to the more than 175 experts from 15 countries was titled “Questions on Humanitarian Work in a Geoengineered World”, and highlighted issues regarding vulnerable people in the context of decision making […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future released two new Pardee Papers in February and March 2010 respectively. The first Paper is on Community Targeting for Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Developing Countries by Pardee Center Graduate Fellow, Moeed Yusuf, and the second Pardee Paper is on Narcotics Trafficking in West […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Future Challenges: Dealing with Disasters ‘ on Tuesday, March 30, 2010, featuring Dr. Pablo Saurez, Dr. Anuradha Mukherji and Prof. Enrique R. Silva. The Seminar will be moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee Center. Dr. Pablo […]
Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Postdoctoral Fellow at the the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was invited by the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) to speak on technology and climate change on March 22, 2010. The event was open to the public and was […]
Experts from a variety of disciplines and around the world will meet at Boston University on March 25 – 26, 2010, for a Pardee Center conference on “Transnational Currents in the Gulf: People, Money and Ideas.” Please note that on Thursday, March 26, the sessions will be held at the Rafik Hariri Building (BU School […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow, Professor Kevin P. Gallagher, together with Professor Jayati Ghosh from Nehru University are co-chairs to a new initiative, the Triple Crisis Blog, by the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE), the Economic Research Foundation and the Heinrich Boell Foundation. The world is experiencing three simultaneous crises in finance, development, and the environment. […]