The newest Task Force Report from the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future – titled Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economy – was released at the United Nations at the Second PrepCom for the 2012 Rio+20 conference (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development). The PrepCom, held at the UN […]
Postdoctoral Fellow Rania Ghosn chaired a panel at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA) held March 3-6 in Montreal, Canada. The panel, entitled “Energy as Spatial Project,” addressed the central question: What potentialities do practices of architecture, urbanism, and landscape carry in embodying “alternative” energy spatialities? The session […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, was one of the invited expert speakers at a plenary of the Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting (IPM) for the Nineteenth Session of the United Nations […]
Former Pardee Summer Fellow Stephanie Edwards will be presenting this week at the 2011 Mardi Gras Conference at Louisiana State University. The conference is hosted by the English Graduate Student Association under the theme “Echoes of Trauma: Exploring the Intersections of Trauma and Culture.” Ms. Edwards’ presentation is rooted in her research completed during her […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future published two new papers: the first is an issue brief (No. 20) on the role of art and the media in perceptions on climate change (see here); and the second is a Task Force Report on governance for a green economy […]
The Pardee Center at Boston University will co-host a special high-level brainstorming session on “Accountability and Implementation: The Keys to Sustainable Development” to be held at the United Nations in New York on March 8, 2011, as a side-event at the second PrepCom meetings for the forthcoming 2012 Rio+20 conference (the United Nations Conference on […]
On Friday, February 25 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment convened for the sixth Sawyer Seminar on Energy and Society. The session, entitled The Role of Energy in Avoiding Collapse, featured Joseph Tainter and Robert Kaufmann and was moderated by […]
Pardee Center Programs Manager Cynthia Barakatt attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held February 17- 21 in Washington, D.C. The theme of the meeting was “Science Without Borders.” The AAAS annual meeting is one of the largest and best-known interdisciplinary scientific meetings and each year attracts thousands […]
Dr. Pablo Suarez’s, Pardee Visiting Fellow, review of the book Global Environmental Change and Human Security has been published in the latest issue of the journal Ecological Economics. The book was edited by R.A. Matthew, J. Barnett, B. McDonald and K.L. O’Brien and published by MIT Press. In his review, Dr. Suarez says that this volume […]
On Monday, February 14, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘What is Asia?’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Prof. David Eckel (BU Religion), Prof. Robert Hefner (BU Anthropology) and Prof. Eugenio Menegon (BU History), and was moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director […]