The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University hosted a reception to welcome the new Pardee Center Director, Prof. James McCann, on September 28, 2011. Prof. McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology and agriculture of Africa, was appointed Director, ad interim of the Frederick […]
Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Post-doctoral Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published an article in Vanguardia Dossier, a quarterly Spanish general public magazine. In this issue, devoted to the analysis of the decade since the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Muñoz wrote about the prospects and evolution of sustainable development. Dr. […]
Ulrike Heine (Photo by Kristin Baumert) Ulrike Heine, Ph.D. student from Justus Liebig University, Gießen/Germany and Visiting Scholar at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, presented at Brandeis University on September 19, 2011. Invited by Sabine von Mering, Director of the Center for German and European Studies, she presented […]
The individual papers in the March 2011 Pardee Center Task Force Report, “Beyond Rio + 20: Governance for a Green Economy” have been published as a special section in the September 2011 issue of the journal Review of Policy Research. The Pardee Center Task Force on Governance for a Green Economy was convened in Fall […]
Paulo Nogueira Batista, Junior, the Executive Director for Brazil and eight other Latin American countries at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was the featured speaker at a Pardee Center Luncheon on Friday, Sept. 16 at the Trustees Ballroom at Boston University. The event was sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a Pardee Center Task Force meeting on Sept. 16 on “Managing Capital Flows for Long-run Development.” Held in the Kenmore Conference Room at Boston University, the Task Force meeting was convened by Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher in collaboration with José […]
Prof. Adil Najam, former Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and co-author of the recent Pardee Center paper “Rio+20: Accountability and Implementation as Key Goals” presented this paper and some of the larger findings emerging from various Pardee Center activities related to Rio+20 at an Africa-wide preparatory […]
From November 28 to December 9 2011, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Durban, South Africa. The Conference will include the 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and associated meetings COM/MOP 7, SBSTA 35, SBI 35, AWG-LCA […]
Alejandro Avenburg joins the Pardee Center as a Graduate Fellow. He is a doctoral student in Political Science at Boston University. His areas of interest are comparative politics and Latin American politics. He began work at the Pardee Center in the summer of 2011 studying the relationship between corruption and political participation in Latin America […]
Prof. James McCann, newly appointed Director, ad interim, of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was quoted in Global Times about the Horn of Africa famine. Prof. McCann opined on the severity and why its impact was worse than before. He also spoke about the need for longer […]