Boston University has become a leader in addressing the challenges of climate change with the Board of Trustees’ vote on December 7, 2017 to formally adopt the ambitious recommendations of the Climate Action Plan Task Force. The Task Force, which is chaired by Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
Calynn Dowler, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and a 2017 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper at the 46th Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin. Dowler’s paper, titled “Migration and Environment in India’s Sundarbans Islands: Linking Public […]
Prof. Lucy Hutyra, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently featured in an article in BU Today highlighting a tool called Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions System (ACES) that she is developing with Conor Gately, a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Earth & Environment. Unlike global […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently welcomed Prof. Jianguo Liu as a Visiting Scholar and Prof. Pallab Mozumder as a Sabbatical Scholar. Prof. Liu, an Associate Professor at Peking University in China, is an expert on the Chinese regulatory system for chemicals, and he has also been a Chinese […]
Marta Marello, the BU Climate Action Plan Project Manager, recently spoke at a panel titled “Achieving a Just Transition: Climate Change Mitigation Success Stories from Around the Globe” as part of the side events of COP23, the second United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference of the parties since the Paris Agreement was reached in 2015. Presenters […]
More than 20 anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and global health specialists gathered at Boston University on Nov. 9 and 10 at the first Symposium on Global Health and the Social Sciences. Sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the gathering was convened and hosted by Pardee Center Faculty […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored his second book, titled Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition(s) in Developing Countries: The challenges of climate change and sustainable development. The book, published by Routledge Press, explores how transitions away from carbon-based fuel sources to renewables occur in […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Joseph Harris is convening the first-ever Symposium on Global Health and the Social Sciences on Nov. 9 and 10, with 25 invited sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists whose research focuses on various aspects of global health. The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is sponsoring this event […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host an information session on Monday, November 6 at 5 pm to provide details about the 2018 Graduate Summer Fellows Program. All interested Boston University graduate students are invited to attend the session, which will be held at Pardee House, 67 Bay […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a seminar titled “Integrating Science, Health & Policy to Engineer Global Sustainable Water Access” on October 25. Access to safe drinking water is considered a fundamental human right; when access is denied there are widespread health, education, and economic implications. One solution to […]