Category: 2010

Oil Spills and Responses Discussed at Special Energy Seminar

The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year was the result of a system of “complacency, collusion and neglect” – the same factors that were responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) in Alaska’s Prince William Sound 21 years ago, according to Boston College Law Professor Zygmunt […]

Pardee Director Writes Op-Ed and Interviewed on BBC

Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, was interviewed on the BBC/PRI radio show The World on the impacts of the recent floods in Pakistan, including the coping strategies of those affected and […]

Special Energy Seminar: Tough Lessons from Oil

Who: Zygmunt Plater, School of Law, Boston College Where: Room STO 453, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University When: Tuesday, October 26, 12:30 PM As a White House staffer once said, “A disaster is a terrible thing to waste.” The BP Deepwater Horizon blowout will be a doubly disastrous calamity if it doesn’t produce systemic changes for […]

Prof. Najam Speaks at SDPI Seminar

Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke – along with Dr. Tariq Banuri, Director of the UN Department of Sustainable Development – at a special seminar at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, Pakistan, on October 23, 2010. The seminar titled […]

Prof. Adil Najam Speaks on International Environmental Law

Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, Prof. Adil Najam spoke on recent developments in international environmental laws at a seminar organized by the Pakistan Society for the Enhancement of the Rule of Law (SERL) and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in […]

Pardee Center Director at International Conference in Pakistan

Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment was one of the featured speakers at the International Conference on Climate and Development held in Islamabad, Pakistan, on October 21-22, 2010. The conference, which attracted a […]

New Sustainable Development Insight on Green Revolution

Green Revolution 2.0: A Sustainable Energy Path By Nalin Kulatilaka October 2010 (8 pages) Download PDF version The Green Revolution in agriculture greatly increased crop yields and averted mass starvation, but it also turned small farms into factory farms that concentrated production in a few locations and reduced the diversity of crops.  In this paper, […]

Mallika Sarabhai Speaks on Music, Dance and Social Change

On Monday, October 18, 2010, renowned Indian social activist and dancer Mallika Sarabhai spoke at the Boston University College of Fine Arts on the role of the arts in bringing about social change. The public event was co-hosted by the Pardee Center in collaboration with the BU Center for the Study of Asia, the CAS Core Curriculum, […]