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 […]
Bryan Patenaude, a 2013 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently made the 2020 Forbes “30 Under 30” List in the healthcare category. Patenaude is a healthcare economist specializing in disease intervention, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS. He currently leads a project that seeks […]
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 […]
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 […]