New research from the Costs of War project’s “20 Years of War” research series at the Pardee Center and Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs found that the post-9/11 wars have cost $6.4 trillion and as many as 801,000 lives since 2001. A report estimating the budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars […]
Henrik Selin, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a piece for The Conversation reacting to the Trump administration’s formal notification to the United Nations that the U.S. would withdraw the Paris Agreement on […]
On November 13, the Pardee Center hosted a seminar featuring Adel Daoud, a Docent/Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a Bell Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he explored the impacts of IMF programs on child poverty in low- and middle-income countries using a […]
Joseph Harris, an assistant professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a new paper exploring healthcare reform in the developing world. The paper, published in the journal Sociological Forum, is titled “The Politics of Expanding Healthcare Access to the Poor and Informal Sectors” […]
On November 4, the BU Marine Program, the Department of Biology, and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-hosted a special lecture titled “Responses of Coral Reefs to Global Warming,” by Prof. Terry Hughes, Director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently welcomed Visiting Research Fellow Qinmei Han, a geographer from Beijing Normal University (BNU) who studies the heat-related health impacts of climate change. Qinmei’s 18-month appointment is the result of a memorandum of understanding co-signed by the Pardee Center and the BNU School of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has launched a new collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University to expand the Costs of War project. The new “20 Years of War” research series is funded by a generous grant from the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently welcomed Visiting Research Fellow Andrea Capurro, a marine biologist from Argentina who specializes in the conservation and management of Antarctic marine living resources. Currently, Capurro is a lead scientist on the proposal of a marine protected area in the West Antarctic Peninsula […]
On October 22, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted the launch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2019 Trade and Development Report. The event featured Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division at UNCTAD, who […]
Kira Sullivan-Wiley, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, presented a paper titled “Reforestation intervention participation: the importance of goal-orientation and mixed methods for reforesting the Brazilian Atlantic Forest” at the 2019 Sustainability and Development Conference hosted by the University of Michigan from October 11-14. In the paper, Sullivan-Wiley […]