The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar, “Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Migration in Bangladesh,” at the Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, on Wednesday, February 14 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm (lunch will be available beginning at 11:30 am). Faculty Research […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is serving on the Organizing Committee for the second annual GlobalFood+ Speed Talks Symposium to be hosted by the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. The symposium will take place at the Behrakis Auditorium of the Jaharis […]
The Global Development Policy Center, the Institute for Sustainable Energy, and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invite you to a talk by Frank Ackerman about his latest book, Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance. Ackerman, Principal Economist at Synapse Energy and Research Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI), will […]
A new National Science Foundation (NSF) report released today establishes a research agenda for sustainable urban systems in coming decades. The report, titled Sustainable Urban Systems: Articulating a Long-Term Convergence Research Agenda, is intended to serve as a guide for the direction of research on cities in the face of unprecedented urbanization. Fewer than one-third of the world’s population […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar, “Pathways to a Natural Gas Off-Ramp: The Economic Case for an Energy Transition,” at the Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, on Thursday, February 1 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm (lunch will be available beginning at […]
Pardee Center Faculty Associate Prof. Henrik Selin and Pardee School Dean Adil Najam recently received funding to lead a United States Institute for Peace (USIP) research study on perceived links between climate change and security in Pakistan. The project will explore the extent to which climate change is characterized as a national or human security issue by […]
Lawrence Were, a Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences at BU’s Sargent College and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an article in the The Lancet Global Health. In the article, titled “Informality and health: universal health coverage in the era of SDGs,” Were […]
Andrew Trlica, a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment and a 2015 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the first author on a recent paper titled “Albedo, Land Cover, and Daytime Surface Temperature Variation Across an Urbanized Landscape” published in the journal […]
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 presented her research on how climate change and land management are affecting the sustainability of rangelands in South America at the 2017 Fall […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Irene Monasterolo, a Visiting Research Fellow, recently co-authored a paper on climate-related financial disclosure in the journal Climatic Change. The paper, titled “Vulnerable yet relevant: the two dimensions of climate-related financial disclosure,” proposes two novel indices to identify […]