By Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos President’s Obama recent speech on climate change, and the policies that will accompany it, have already received an enormous amount of public attention. The expected political responses accompanied the announcements as soon as talking points were made public. But after the initial excitement, what can now be said about […]
Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows participated in a gaming session lead by Pardee Visiting Research Fellow Pablo Suarez. The games are designed to demonstrate links between experiential knowledge and action in the context of climate risk. Pablo Suarez leads gaming sessions like this one with communities and groups of decision makers all over the world. He […]
The 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows presented their research to their peers and Pardee Center Director and staff on July 11-12. A the end of the summer The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows will produce a research paper to be considered for publication.
Former Pardee Center Director Jim McCann is quoted in The Guardian in an article titled Agriculture’s impact on malaria. The story cites a 2005 publication Prof. McCann co-authored on the connection between maize cultivation and malaria transmission in Ethiopia. Prof. McCann was also the principal investigator of a five-year study funded by the Rockefeller Foundation on […]
Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos will deliver a lecture at the Hertog Global Strategy Initiative at Columbia University titled, “Scientific Assessments: Policy Communication Successes and Failures” on June 20, from 6:00-7:30pm. His talk will address the effectiveness of communication between scientific communities and policy-decision-making communities via processes of scientific assessment. The talk is a part of […]
Pardee Faculty Fellows Susan Foster and Kevin Gallagher met with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows in two separate lunch meetings recently. Prof. Foster, a global health specialist who has done extensive field work in Africa, spoke about her research including most recently on non-communicable diseases in developing countries. Prof. Gallagher talked about his research […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-sponsored a presentation of the most recent Pardee Center Task Force Report titled, Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review at the Institute for Applied Economic Research in Brasilia, Brazil on June 6. Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher spoke about the report, along […]
Pardee Center Visiting Research Fellows Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez lead a gaming session in Bogor, Indonesia on June 5 hosted by The World Bank, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and in collaboration with the German Society for International Cooperation. The day-long gaming session was part of […]
The 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows participated in a workshop on June 5th that provided guidance for conducting research and writing a paper for an interdisciplinary audience. Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos, Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin, and Pardee Center Associate Director Cynthia Barakatt led the afternoon session. Prof. Selin and Prof. Janetos discussed the […]
The 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows arrived at the Pardee Center on June 3, 2013. The eight students will spend 10 weeks writing research papers to be considered for publication in one of the Pardee Center’s publication series. On their first day, Pardee Center Associate Director Cynthia Barakatt lead an orientation meeting followed by a social lunch. More […]