The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, and the BU East Asian Studies Program will cosponsor an April 16th talk titled “Indian Americans: The Life and Work of a New Immigrant Community – What can Chinese in America Learn?”. The event, […]
Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos was quoted in a March 19 article in The New York Times titled “Obama Turns to Web to Illustrate the Effects of Climate Change”. The article discusses the newly created website application, climate.data.gov, which illustrates impacts of global warming such as drought, wildfires, and sea-level rise as a tangible and […]
The Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) at Boston University recently launched “China-Latin America Round-Up,” a bi-weekly post that features news, articles, trend reports, book reviews, and academic papers focusing on the increasingly significant relationship between China and Latin America. The Round-Up is part of GEGI’s larger focus on “China’s Global Reach,” which analyzes China’s trade, […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Latin American Studies Program , and the Initiative on Cities at Boston University will cosponsor a mini-conference on “The Latin American Urban Experience: Crisis, Creativity, and Renewal” on Wednesday April 9, 2014 from 2 to 5 pm at the Pardee House. The […]
Pardee Center 2013 Graduate Summer Fellow Bryan Patenaude is the author of the most recent Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) Working Paper titled “Reinventing Development Banking in Frontier Economies: The Case for Romania.” The paper addresses the shortcomings of Romania in obtaining sufficient financial resources for domestic development following its accession into the European Union […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted Clark University Professor Anthony Bebbington on Monday, February 24th for a presentation on mining and development in Latin America. During his presentation titled “Natural Resource Extraction and Development in Latin America: Socio-Economic and Environmental Dimensions,” Prof. Bebbington discussed the dynamics of growth […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a talk on February 10 by Prof. Bob Kopp, Associate Director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, who is an expert on sea level rise. Concluding that “we can’t wish or legislate sea level rise away”, Kopp explained the physics of sea level […]
Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos was among 30 Boston University faculty and administrators who attended a kick-off meeting and reception for the new Initiative on Cities (I0C) at its new home at 75 Bay State Road on February 11. IoC co-directors Profs. Graham Wilson and Thomas Menino, the former long-time mayor of Boston, welcomed the […]
Debra Javeline, Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, recently presented a thought-provoking Pardee Center Talk titled “The Most Important Topic Political Scientists are Not Studying: Adapting to Climate Change”. Her discussion focused on the need for substantive political science research into climate change and the possible routes towards adaptation, stressing that […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin is the author of an article that was published in the February 2014 issue of Global Environmental Politics. The article, titled “Global Environmental Law and Treaty-Making on Hazardous Substances: The Minamata Convention and Mercury Abatement” analyzes the legally binding Convention on Mercury and addresses a number of questions related to the history of […]