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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Michael Dietze, an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently featured in a story in The Brink about the Australian bushfires. In the article, Prof. Dietze explains the history and ecological role of Austalia’s fire […]
Heidi Peltier, Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, authored a new paper in the Costs of War project’s “20 Years of War” research series exploring the cost of interest payments on the public debt being used to finance the post-9/11 wars. In the paper, Prof. […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson W. (Wally) Fulweiler and 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray recently published a paper titled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Native and Non-native Oysters” in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. The paper’s lead author was Gretchen McCarthy of the Fulweiler Lab. The introduction of non-native species of oysters is commonly associated with a wide […]
Les Kaufman, 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 attended the annual meeting of the Pew Marine Fellows in Hilo, Hawaii. At the meeting, Prof. Kaufman presented on the progress made by the Coral Restoration Consortium, a NOAA-led […]
Laurence Delina, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently delivered a pair of lectures on sustainable energy transitions at the University of the Philippines. The lectures were part of Delina’s 19-day scientific visit to the University of the Philippines under the auspices of the Balik […]
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 a paper related to their Pardee Center research on urban nitrogen deposition. The lead author of the paper was Stephen Decina, formerly […]