Category: News

2015 Graduate Summer Fellows Session Winding Down

Less than three weeks remain in the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows session. Over the past month and a half, the Fellows have been researching and writing their papers while participating in discussions on a wide range of topics at lunches with several faculty members, including Prof. Anthony Janetos (Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]

John Patrick Connors Joins the Center as a Post-Doctoral Associate

John Patrick Casellas Connors has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a post-doctoral associate. He is a geographer specializing in the study of social-ecological systems, focused primarily on issues of food system sustainability and processes of land cover change. His research has examined an array of issues related […]

Laurence L. Delina Joins the Pardee Center as a Post-Doctoral Associate

Laurence L. Delina has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a post-doctoral associate. Delina is also an Earth System Governance Research Fellow and a Research Associate at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His work explores governance and institutional arrangements in […]

2015 Graduate Summer Fellows Arrive at Pardee Center

The nine 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows began their 10-week term on June 1 and they are already in full swing. The first week included orientation, a writing and research workshop with guest speaker Prof. Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and a gathering at the BU Pub with Pardee Center […]

Irene Monasterolo Joins the Pardee Center as a Post-Doctoral Associate

Irene Monasterolo has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a post-doctoral associate. She is a development economist with experience in policy monitoring and evaluation; institutional capacity building; governance of evidence based sustainability policies; complex system thinking for modelling the resource-climate nexus; green fiscal and monetary policies for financing […]

New Paper: Smallholder Challenges in the Growing Palm Oil Industry

Click here to download the PDF. In this Issues in Brief, 2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Laurie Wissler explores the challenges faced by smallholder palm oil farmers, particularly in Southeast Asia. Smallholders operating less than 50 hectares of land produce about one-third of the global palm oil supply, but their livelihoods are threatened by land conflicts, market […]

Pardee Director to speak at CITL Annual Conference

Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will speak at the the third annual conference of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning (CITL) at Boston University’s College of General Studies on Saturday, June 27th. The conference, titled “Science and the Humanities Confront the Anthropocene,” will take an […]

Call for Proposals: Faculty Associates and Fellows

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future announces its first annual call for proposals for Faculty Associates and Fellows for the 2015-16 academic year.  Faculty Associates and Fellows are critical partners in making the Center’s core mission a reality. The Center’s main research focus can be generally described as solution-oriented […]