Pardee Center 2013 Graduate Summer Fellow Bryan Patenaude is the author of the most recent Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) Working Paper titled “Reinventing Development Banking in Frontier Economies: The Case for Romania.” The paper addresses the shortcomings of Romania in obtaining sufficient financial resources for domestic development following its accession into the European Union […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted Clark University Professor Anthony Bebbington on Monday, February 24th for a presentation on mining and development in Latin America. During his presentation titled “Natural Resource Extraction and Development in Latin America: Socio-Economic and Environmental Dimensions,” Prof. Bebbington discussed the dynamics of growth […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a talk on February 10 by Prof. Bob Kopp, Associate Director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, who is an expert on sea level rise. Concluding that “we can’t wish or legislate sea level rise away”, Kopp explained the physics of sea level […]
Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos was among 30 Boston University faculty and administrators who attended a kick-off meeting and reception for the new Initiative on Cities (I0C) at its new home at 75 Bay State Road on February 11. IoC co-directors Profs. Graham Wilson and Thomas Menino, the former long-time mayor of Boston, welcomed the […]
Debra Javeline, Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, recently presented a thought-provoking Pardee Center Talk titled “The Most Important Topic Political Scientists are Not Studying: Adapting to Climate Change”. Her discussion focused on the need for substantive political science research into climate change and the possible routes towards adaptation, stressing that […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin is the author of an article that was published in the February 2014 issue of Global Environmental Politics. The article, titled “Global Environmental Law and Treaty-Making on Hazardous Substances: The Minamata Convention and Mercury Abatement” analyzes the legally binding Convention on Mercury and addresses a number of questions related to the history of […]
Pardee Center Research Fellows Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez are two of the co-authors for a book chapter that was recently published in a collection of specialist papers titled Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change, Scaling it Up (Routledge, 2014). The chapter, “Serious Fun: Scaling Up Community Based Adaptation through Experimental Learning” draws from […]
Members of the most recent Pardee Center Task Force Report Remittance Flows to Post-Conflict States: Perspectives on Human Security and Development discussed the findings from their groundbreaking research at a Pardee House Seminar held on February 4, 2014. The Seminar was led by Task Force co-conveners Donald F. Terry (BU School of Law) and Prof. […]
2014 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program Application deadline: Friday, March 14, 2014 The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows Program 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 Longer-Range Future. The Pardee […]
Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos recently gave two presentations at the 14th National Conference and Global Forum on Science, Policy, and the Environment in Washington DC, an annual event organized by the National Council for Science and Environment. During the opening plenary session of the conference titled “Building Climate Solutions”, Prof. Janetos participated in a […]