Pardee Center Research Fellow Dr. Pablo Suarez has joined the faculty of University of Lugano (Switzerland) – Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Management. During the week of August 9th, Dr. Suarez taught a course entitled “Innovations in climate risk management.” This course was built on the Pardee Center publication “Linking Climate Knowledge […]
Miquel Muñoz, Pardee Center Postdoctoral Fellow, participated in the UNFCCC negotiations held in Bonn, Germany from August 2-6, 2010. The negotiations included the eleventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC AWG-LCA 11) and the thirteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is hosting a two-day meeting of the Editorial Board of the online Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) on Aug. 9 and 10. Pardee Faculty Fellow Cutler Cleveland, a BU Professor of Geography and Environment, is the founding editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia, which was launched […]
The 2010 Pardee Summer Graduate Fellowships came to a successful end on August 6. According to the Fellows, the key highlight of the Fellowship was being exposed to the interdisciplinary aspect of program and the Pardee Center itself. Speaking about the program, Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Pardee Center, commented that interdisciplinary research […]
A new book on China’s future – China Today, China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics, Economy and Society – edited by Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Prof. Joseph Fewsmith and based on a Pardee Center’s December 2008 conference has just been published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. The book is based on essays presented at the Pardee Center […]
Pardee Center Summer Fellow June Park gave a presentation on July 31 at the 23rd ACPS Annual Meeting & International Symposium on China’s Development, Harmony and Soft Power organized by Endicott College in Beverly, MA. The conference, which took place from July 30 to August 1, was designed to allow broad discussion of key domestic […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, contributed a book chapter to the collection Canada Among Nations 2009-2010: As Others See Us, edited by Fen Osler Hampson and Paul Heinbecker and published by the […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment at Boston University presented the report of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy (CDP), on which he serves, to the United Nations Economic and Social Council […]
The Renewables 2010 Global Status Report was released by the Renewable Energy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) in Paris on July 15th, 2010. Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Pardee Center Post-doctoral Fellow, has contributed to the report since its first edition in 2005 as a lead country researcher. Highlights of the report include: – For the […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the 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 a keynote speaker at the 2010 Convention of the Canadian Special Crops Association (CSCA) held in Saskatoon, Canada. The CSCA Convention brought together over 300 […]