Category: News

Prof. Adil Najam in Times of India on Kashmir Issue

With conflict and violence escalating again in the Kashmir region, Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment was quoted in a feature story in the Times of India on that subject (September 12, […]

The Sawyer Seminars on Energy and Society Begin on Sept. 20

During the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment will convene the John Sawyer Seminars at Boston University on Energy Transitions and Society. The first seminar in this new series will be held on Monday, September 20, 2010 […]

Pardee Center Task Force on Governance for a Green Economy Meets at Pardee House

The Pardee Center Task Force on Governance for a Green Economy met at the Pardee House on September 10, 2010 in an all-day experts meeting which discussed different aspects of the topic and deliberated on ideas that are most likely to advance effective institutional innovations towards better governance for sustainable development and a ‘green economy.’ […]

IISD and Pardee Center Host Experts Meeting on Accountability in GEG

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future organized an experts brainstorming meeting on  Accountability in Global Environmental Governance on September 9, 2010 at the Pardee House. The meeting brought together a select group of leading practitioners and scholars in a brainstorming session […]

Pardee House Seminar Discusses Accountability in Global Governance

On Thursday, September 9, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future launched its Fall 2010 Calendar of activities with a lunch seminar on ‘Accountability in Global Governance’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series and also also a part of the Pardee Center’s suite of activities of global governance, […]

Pardee Center Director in the Media

Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment has been quoted by multiple sources in the US and international media on the ongoing havoc caused by the devastating floods in Pakistan, which have now affected […]

Pardee Center Publishes New Paper on Coffee Trade in Africa

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future released a new publication in July as part of the Africa 2060 research program. The Pardee Paper is on Coffee, Culture, and Intellectual Property: Lessons for Africa from the Ethiopian Fine Coffee Trade by Pardee Post-Doctoral Fellow, Heran Sereke-Brhan. This publication is part […]

IISD and Pardee Center to Host Experts Meeting on Accountability and Governance

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host an experts meeting on Accountability in the Global Environmental Governance System on September 9, 2010, at Pardee House, Boston University, Boston. The meeting seeks to bring together a select group of […]