The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently hosted a presentation and discussion about a new National Science Foundation (NSF) report, titled Sustainable Urban Systems: Articulating a Long-Term Convergence Research Agenda. The report, released in January, is intended to serve as a guide for the direction of research on sustainable urban systems in coming decades in […]
Les Kaufman, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor in the Department of Biology, co-authored a recent paper on the value of marine environmental stewardship in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The paper, titled “Stranded capital: environmental stewardship is part of […]
Richard Primack, a professor of biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article titled “Spring Budburst in a Changing Climate” in American Scientist. In the article, Prof. Primack explains his 15-year effort to use Henry David Thoreau’s unpublished 1850s field notes to compare the […]
Laurence Delina, a postdoctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, authored a recent paper titled “Energy democracy in a continuum: Remaking public engagement on energy transitions in Thailand” in the journal Energy Research & Social Science. In the paper, Delina explores how to achieve sustainable energy transitions “inclusively, fairly, and […]
Muhammad Zaman, a professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the author of a new book titled Bitter Pills: The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs published by Oxford University Press. The book provides a journalistic account of the increasingly common problem of counterfeit pills — which […]
Henrik Selin, an associate professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been awarded a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich’s (TUM) Institute for Advanced Study. The three-year Fellowship, which is named after 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Hans […]
John Casellas Connors and Bruce Anderson, a postdoctoral associate and a Faculty Research Fellow, respectively, at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently traveled to Beijing Normal University (BNU) for a week-long visit to develop collaborations with researchers at the Chinese university. During their visit, Connors and Anderson gave talks on […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend an upcoming seminar, “Balancing Energy and Conservation: Utility-Scale Solar Development in California” featuring Frank Davis, a professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. The seminar will take place on Thursday, April 12 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm (lunch will […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its annual Distinguished Lecture, “A Complex Dilemma: The Intersections of Poverty, Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation” featuring Diana Liverman, Regents Professor of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. Prof. Liverman is a leading […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently hosted a special lecture by Frances Seymour, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute, exploring the role of tropical forests in efforts to mitigate climate change and advance sustainable development. Seymour’s talk was centered around her recent book, Why Forests? Why Now?: […]