Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, presented a paper at the 1.5 Degrees Conference organized by the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Monasterolo’s paper, titled “When the elephant meets the mouse: modeling the impact of fossil fuels and renewable energy subsidies on […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, delivered a talk at the “Energy Transitions in Asia” symposium held at Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) in Nanjing, China on September 23, 2016. The talk, titled “Producing energy futures in developing […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, discussed his recent book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation, at a Pardee Center seminar on September 27, 2016. In the book, which was published in June by Routledge Press, Delina explores whether the rapid mobilization in preparation for […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will discuss his recent book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation, at a seminar on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at the Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road (Lunch will be available beginning at […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2016-17 Faculty Research Fellows. With seed funding from the Pardee Center, the four new Faculty Research Fellows will launch three-year interdisciplinary research projects, joining the six ongoing projects underway by the 2015-16 cohort of 10 Fellows. Over the course of […]
The 2016 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows have reached the conclusion of the program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. During the five weeks since the fellows gave their midpoint presentations to Pardee Center staff, post-docs, and affiliated faculty, they participated in three more faculty lunch discussions with Faculty Associate Henrik Selin (Pardee School of […]
Prof. Les Kaufman, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article that will be published in the journal Ecohydrology. The article, titled “Fisheries and Water Level Fluctuations in the World’s Largest Desert Lake,” explores how the fisheries of Lake Turkana in Kenya — which […]
Abhishek Sharma, a 2014 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a report published by Health Action International (HAI) on global access to insulin. The report, titled “Insulin Trade Profile,” analyzes the global insulin trade — an essential medicine for people living with diabetes […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a workshop July 13-15 for an international group of scholars, practitioners, and government officials from 12 developing countries as part of a research program titled The Future of Energy Systems in Developing Countries. Pardee Center Post-doctoral Associate Laurence Delina convened the gathering […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a special lecture titled “New Paradigms for Delivering Affordable and Just Energy Access: Insights from the Social Sciences” with Prof. Benjamin Sovacool on Thursday, July 14. Prof. Sovacool discussed how small-scale renewable energy technologies, such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and […]