Prof. Kevin P. Gallagher, a Faculty Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, traveled to Buenos Aires on June 3 and 4 to deliver one of the keynote speeches at the 80th anniversary of the Argentine Central Bank. Argentina’s Central Bank is among the oldest in the world. […]
Sahar Abi Hassan, a doctoral student in the department of Political Science and a 2015 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper at the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), held in San Juan, Puerto Rico from May 27-30. […]
Irene Monasterolo has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a post-doctoral associate. She is a development economist with experience in policy monitoring and evaluation; institutional capacity building; governance of evidence based sustainability policies; complex system thinking for modelling the resource-climate nexus; green fiscal and monetary policies for financing […]
Click here to download the PDF. In this Issues in Brief, 2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Laurie Wissler explores the challenges faced by smallholder palm oil farmers, particularly in Southeast Asia. Smallholders operating less than 50 hectares of land produce about one-third of the global palm oil supply, but their livelihoods are threatened by land conflicts, market […]
Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will speak at the the third annual conference of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning (CITL) at Boston University’s College of General Studies on Saturday, June 27th. The conference, titled “Science and the Humanities Confront the Anthropocene,” will take an […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future announces its first annual call for proposals for Faculty Associates and Fellows for the 2015-16 academic year. Faculty Associates and Fellows are critical partners in making the Center’s core mission a reality. The Center’s main research focus can be generally described as solution-oriented […]
Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, gave a lecture at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Wednesday, May 6th. The talk, which was titled, “Observations at the Interface of Environmental Science and Policy,” focused primarily on how scientific assessment processes have become an important mode of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows. These nine outstanding Boston University graduate students represent various schools and departments from across the university, including Earth & Environment, Political Science, Public Health, Biology, Sociology, and Mathematics & Statistics. Starting June 1st, […]
Today the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released a web-based prototype of climate indicators to track nationally-relevant climate change and the impacts of it over time. Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Melissa Kenney, University of Maryland research assistant professor, guided the development […]
Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a lecture at the third installment of a Boston University Board of Trustees forum series on fossil fuel divestment on April 28. Drawing on the findings from the U.S. National Climate Assessment, Prof. Janetos discussed the impacts of climate change on the […]