The Department of Defense has increased its spending on contractors by 164 percent since 2001, according to a new report from the Costs of War project’s “20 Years of War” research series, a collaboration between the Pardee Center and Brown University’s Watson Institute. By relying so heavily on contracting in the post-9/11 wars, the Pentagon has […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Prof. Lucy Hutyra, Prof. Dan Li, and Prof. Pamela Templer recently co-authored a paper exploring the effects of increasing urban tree canopy cover as a nature-based solution to combat excess urban heat. Trees provide a wide range of ecosystem services, particularly in cities where their ability to cool local air […]
The 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have reached the midpoint of the 10-week program. Over the course of two days last week, the 10 Fellows presented their research progress to receive feedback from their peers, as well as from Pardee Center staff and affiliated researchers. During 10-minute presentations, followed by 20-minute Q&A sessions, the Fellows presented their ongoing […]
Pamela Templer, a Professor in the Department 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 editorial arguing for a more “solutions-based” higher education experience that combines an interdisciplinary approach with a focus on human and environmental well-being. In the article, published […]
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, was recently awarded a developmental study to explore associations between alcohol use and HIV among married couples in India. Given rising rates of alcohol consumption and HIV […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored two papers on mangrove conservation and on the impacts of forest fires on ecosystem productivity in India. In the first paper, published in the journal Integrated Environment Assessment and Management, the authors identified conservation priority zones (CPZs) […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-chaired the annual meeting for the International Council for Exploration of the Seas Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (ICES WGHIST). Klein has co-chaired the WGHIST for the past six years with Ruth […]
During the past two weeks, the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have had virtual lunch discussions with Faculty Research Fellow Neta Crawford and Faculty Associates Kevin Gallagher and Felice Amato. On June 15, Prof. Crawford discussed the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, which she co-founded in 2010 […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, authored an op-ed for The Conversation exploring the economic opportunities presented by conservation of—as opposed to expanded oil and gas development on—public lands. Using an input-output model, Prof. Peltier shows that each $1 million of spending […]
Christine Marsico, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate at BU’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, recently co-authored an op-ed in BU Today on the impacts of xenophobic rhetoric and immigration-based harassment on stress and anxiety levels in schools. Research shows that harassment based on immigration status has been increasing in recent years. Marsico’s […]