Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a paper released today that describes the process of developing the U.S. National Climate Indicators System (NCIS), a web-based prototype of climate indicators to track nationally-relevant climate change and its impacts over time. The paper, co-authored by Melissa Kenney, University […]
On Wednesday, January 27, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a presentation and discussion titled “Credit-driven bubbles and crises in the macroeconomic and financial system: the Eurace agent-based modeling approach,” featuring Prof. Marco Raberto of the University of Genoa. Prof. Raberto presented the agent-based modeling approach to investigate […]
Prof. Kevin Gallagher, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was quoted in a recent Financial Times story titled “Capital controls no longer taboo as emerging markets battle flight.” In the article, Gallagher calls on policymakers to use capital controls given the unprecedented capital outflows from emerging markets […]
Application deadline: Monday, March 14, 2015 Download application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2016 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the broad research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
The French ambassador who played a leading role in facilitating the recent global climate change agreement in Paris will provide a “behind the scenes” account of how the pact was reached during an event on Monday, Feb. 8 co-sponsored by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and The Frederick […]
Bas van Ruijven has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on a six month appointment as a Visiting Scholar. Bas is a Project Scientist II with the Integrated Assessment Modeling group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. Bas holds an MSc in Environmental […]
Cancer is the leading global cause of death, and has been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide, which are projected to account for roughly 80 percent of global cancer diagnoses by 2030. Much like the inadequate funding and priority-setting that plagued the treatment of HIV/AIDS early in the epidemic, cancer treatment […]
Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, had her research presented at a recent conference titled “Climate Change: The Finance Sector and Pathways to 2°C” at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Paris. The event, sponsored by the 2° Investing Initiative, the Oxford […]
Marta Marello, a Research Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently attended Climate-KIC’s Champions reception in Paris in conjunction with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks. Held at the Grand Palais on December 4, the Climate-KIC program featured an expert roundtable made up of representatives from academia, the private […]
Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, participated in a forum on climate change mitigation and adaptation on December 1. Prof. Janetos — along with Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and Madhu Dutta-Koehler, a professor of city planning and urban affairs — gave a […]