Application deadline: Monday, February 28, 2011 The Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Range Future seeks up to four research assistants for a short-term assignment related to our Development That Works conference on March 31, 2011. Candidates must be able to commit to attending the all-day conference on March 31 and […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future and Boston University Professor presented the First South Asia Initiative Water Seminar at Harvard University, co-organized by the Harvard South Asia Initiative, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Harvard Water Program. Chaired by prof. […]
Pardee Center Post-doctoral Fellow Dr. Miquel Munoz authored a chapter in the Second Assessment Report of Climate Change in Catalonia, printed in Catalan in late 2010 and recently made available online. In his chapter, accessible here, Dr. Muñoz provides an overview of international negotiations on climate change, including: history of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on […]
The International Relations department is organizing the First Annual Graduate Student Research Conference on February 18 – 19, 2011. The Frederick. S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, together with the BU Department of International Relations, the Center for International Relations, the BU Center for the Study of Asia, and the Graduate International […]
Boston University will convene an all-day conference titled “Development That Works” on Thursday, March 31, 2011 which will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss development ideas that have been demonstrated or have the potential to lead to sustainable and effective development. The conference is being organized by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Monday, February 14, 2011, on ‘What is Asia?’ The seminar will feature Prof. David Eckel (BU Religion), Prof. Robert Hefner (BU Anthropology) and Prof. Eugenio Menegon (BU History). The seminar will be moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee […]
Pardee Visiting Fellow, Dr. Pablo Suarez, has contributed to the recently launched World Resources Report website – the product of a unique 20-year partnership among the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Resources Institute. Titled “Decision Making In A Changing Climate”, the 2010 report […]
On Monday, January 31, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Global Philanthropy and Development’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Paula D. Johnson, John Hammock and Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, and was moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Pardee Center. Prof. Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha […]
The Future of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting By Matthew Maguire January 2011 (8 pages) Download PDF The number of companies that do some type of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting has risen dramatically in the past 15 years, especially among large international corporations. But the form and content of such reports can vary dramatically among the […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin was in Chiba, Japan to attend the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on Mercury (INC2) will be held in Chiba, Japan from 24 to 28 January, 2011. Prof. Selin was the author of Pardee Paper No. 5 – Managing Hazardous Chemicals: Longer-Range […]