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 has been in the international and Pakistan media on the recent floods in Pakistan (also see here, here and here). On September 15, Prof. Najam published an […]
From 29 November to 10 December 2010 the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Cancun, Mexico. The Conference will include the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and associated meetings COM/MOP 6, SBSTA 33, SBI 33, AWG-LCA 13 […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold an all-day public conference on “The Future of South-South Economic Relations” to be held on Friday, September 24, 2010. The conference will focus on the emerging trends in economic interaction amongst developing countries. The conference will bring leading scholars from the […]
Dr. Athar Osama, a Visiting Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has just launched a new column on SciDev.Net, the Science and Development Network, called “Islam Analysis.” His first column in the new series is titled “Promoting Scientific Collaboration,” and reviews the state of scientific cooperation in […]
With conflict and violence escalating again in the Kashmir region, 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 of Geography and Environment was quoted in a feature story in the Times of India on that subject (September 12, […]
During the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment will convene the John Sawyer Seminars at Boston University on Energy Transitions and Society. The first seminar in this new series will be held on Monday, September 20, 2010 […]
The Pardee Center Task Force on Governance for a Green Economy met at the Pardee House on September 10, 2010 in an all-day experts meeting which discussed different aspects of the topic and deliberated on ideas that are most likely to advance effective institutional innovations towards better governance for sustainable development and a ‘green economy.’ […]
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future organized an experts brainstorming meeting on Accountability in Global Environmental Governance on September 9, 2010 at the Pardee House. The meeting brought together a select group of leading practitioners and scholars in a brainstorming session […]
On Thursday, September 9, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future launched its Fall 2010 Calendar of activities with a lunch seminar on ‘Accountability in Global Governance’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series and also also a part of the Pardee Center’s suite of activities of global governance, […]
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, has recently been invited to serve on the editorial of two prestigious academic journals, both related to the central mission of the Pardee Center. Prof. Adil Najam […]