Category: 2020

Faculty Research Fellow Neta Crawford Authors Article on Costs of Iraq War for The Conversation

Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently authored an article for The Conversation on the $2 trillion dollar cost of the Iraq War to date. Included in the ongoing costs are nearly $200 billion for medical care and disability compensation for Iraq War […]

DEADLINE EXTENDED: The 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program

The application deadline has been extended to Monday, March 23 Download application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the future-focused research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee […]

Pardee Center Establishes Affiliation with Pardee School of Global Studies

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce that it has established an affiliation with the Pardee School of Global Studies, becoming the School’s newest interdisciplinary research center. “Now in its 20th year, the Pardee Center has become a truly international destination for public policy scholarship and […]

Former Summer Fellow Radost Stanimirova Authors Paper on Sensitivity of Global Pasturelands to Climate Change

Radost Stanimirova, a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper titled “Sensitivity of Global Pasturelands to Climate Variation” published in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal Earth’s Future. Pastures are the most […]

Postdoc Emily Klein Edits Quarterly Newsletter on Marine Social-Ecological Systems

Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, edits a quarterly newsletter, the Oceans Past News, which released its most recent edition this month. The Oceans Past News aspires to unite and inform the global community interested in long-term and historical perspectives of marine social-ecological […]

Faculty Associate Lawrence Were Publishes Paper on Impact of Social Health Insurance on HIV+ Pregnant Women in Kenya

Lawrence Were, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and an Assistant Professor in both the Department of Health Sciences at Sargent College and in the Department of Global Health at the School of Public Health, recently authored an article titled “Effects of social health insurance on access and […]

Janetos’s Paper on Importance of Climate Adaptation Published Posthumously in Climatic Change

The late Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013-2019, wrote an essay titled “Why is climate adaptation so important? What are the needs for additional research?” that was posthumously published in the journal Climatic Change. In the essay, Prof. Janetos presented a general framework for climate adaptation […]

Faculty Research Fellow Min Ye Authors New Book on China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Min Ye, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has published a new book titled The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018 (Cambridge University Press 2020).  In the book, Prof. Ye explores the […]

Former Summer Fellow Joshua Duclos Authors Paper on the Idea of Wilderness in Environmental Ethics Debates

Joshua Duclos, a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper titled “Uncomplicating the Idea of Wilderness”  in the journal Environmental Values. In the paper, Duclos responds to common empirical, cultural, philosophical, and environmental objections to the idea of “wilderness” in environmental ethics […]