Laurence Delina, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently convened a pair of interdisciplinary workshops on the future of energy systems in developing countries. The first workshop, which was held November 1-2 at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, focused on China’s rapidly expanding investments in energy […]
Ziming Xuan, an Associate Professor in BU’s School of Public Health and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk exploring the role of alcohol consumed by men in influencing the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) among married women in India. The […]
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the EPA have estimated that food production by itself accounts for nearly a quarter of all greenhouse emissions in the world. What we eat, where it comes from, and how food gets to the table impacts our world in more ways than we may think. Join […]
New research from the Costs of War project’s “20 Years of War” research series at the Pardee Center and Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs found that the post-9/11 wars have cost $6.4 trillion and as many as 801,000 lives since 2001. A report estimating the budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars […]
Henrik Selin, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a piece for The Conversation reacting to the Trump administration’s formal notification to the United Nations that the U.S. would withdraw the Paris Agreement on […]
On November 13, the Pardee Center hosted a seminar featuring Adel Daoud, a Docent/Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a Bell Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he explored the impacts of IMF programs on child poverty in low- and middle-income countries using a […]
Joseph Harris, an assistant professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a new paper exploring healthcare reform in the developing world. The paper, published in the journal Sociological Forum, is titled “The Politics of Expanding Healthcare Access to the Poor and Informal Sectors” […]
On November 4, the BU Marine Program, the Department of Biology, and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-hosted a special lecture titled “Responses of Coral Reefs to Global Warming,” by Prof. Terry Hughes, Director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently welcomed Visiting Research Fellow Qinmei Han, a geographer from Beijing Normal University (BNU) who studies the heat-related health impacts of climate change. Qinmei’s 18-month appointment is the result of a memorandum of understanding co-signed by the Pardee Center and the BNU School of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has launched a new collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University to expand the Costs of War project. The new “20 Years of War” research series is funded by a generous grant from the […]