The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently hosted a seminar exploring the physical impacts of climate change and the implications of natural disasters, water scarcity, and other climate-induced challenges on the lives of people in coastal regions of Bangladesh. The seminar, titled “Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Migration in […]
Rachael Garrett, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently profiled in an article published by BU Research. The article highlights Prof. Garrett’s decade of experience in Brazil, where she has been interviewing farmers to better […]
Lucy Hutyra and Pamela Templer, Professors in the Departments of Earth & Environment and Biology, respectively, and Faculty Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored two papers related to their Pardee Center research on urban nitrogen deposition. The lead author of both papers, Stephen Decina […]
Laurence Delina, a postdoctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, authored a recent perspective article titled “Can Energy Democracy Thrive in a Non-democracy?” in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. In the paper, Delina argues that energy democracy — the idea of citizens leading energy transitions in small groups of households […]
Pardee Center postdoctoral associate Laurence Delina and Director Prof. Anthony Janetos have guest edited a special journal issue consisting of 24 accounts, stories, narratives, and perspectives on the futures of energy systems. The special volume has been published in the journal Energy Research and Social Science (Vol. 35, January 2018). The collection covers disparate geographic […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend an upcoming special lecture, “Why Forests? Why Now?” featuring Frances Seymour, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. The lecture will take place on the 4th floor of the Boston University Hillel House at 213 Bay State Road […]
Rachael Garrett, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper on the effectiveness of companies’ supply-chain initiatives aimed at reducing deforestation. The paper, titled “The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation,” was published in Nature Climate […]
Join us for a talk by Sebastian Helgenberger from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, where he leads the “Multiple Benefits of Renewables” project. Building on experiences with Germany’s Energiewende (transition towards renewable energies), Sebastian and his team in their research activities and international science-policy dialogues are putting particular emphasis on the social […]
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 selected as an expert for the newly-formed Minamata Convention on Mercury effectiveness evaluation committee, representing the Pardee Center, which is an observer organization of […]
Nathan Phillips, a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently led a discussion on the economic case for an energy transition away from natural gas at a seminar held at the Pardee Center on February 1. Prof. […]