Pardee Faculty Fellow, Prof. Cutler Cleveland, shared his views with BU Today on the current nuclear crisis in Japan. The recent earthquake and tusnami in Japan has triggered a nuclear crisis after reactors at one nuclear power plant were affected by the natural disaster. The crisis in Japan has reignited an international debate on nuclear […]
The Pardee Center is delighted to welcome six Graduate Research Assistants who will work with the Center’s staff on the upcoming conference, “Development That Works”. The Research Assistants will write sections of the conference report and help with logistical details at the March 31 event. The six graduate assistants are: Neil Borland, Master of Arts […]
The Pardee Center hosted an experts workshop on Thursday, March 10 to review the Center’s ongoing work on the “Searchlight: Visualization and Analysis of Trend Data” project for the Rockefeller Foundation. Ten experts (see list below) from various disciplines met with the Pardee Center’s project team members and Claudia Juech, Managing Director of the Rockefeller […]
Pardee Fellow Pablo Suarez made a presentation at a workshop in the West African city of Mopti (Mali), in the context of a new 5-year, 9-country program called “Partners for Resilience”. In his capacity as associate director of programs of the Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre, Dr. Suarez has joined forces with colleagues from Wetlands International, CARE, Cordaid […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology in Washington DC. There were over 7,500 registered participants for the meeting, held from March 6 to March 10, 2011. Prof. Selin’s presentation was titled “The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants” and was part of the session […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University co-hosted a special high-level brainstorming session on “Accountability and Implementation: The Keys to Sustainable Development” at the United Nations in New York on March 8, 2011, as a side-event at the second PrepCom meeting for the forthcoming 2012 Rio+20 conference […]
The newest Task Force Report from the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future – titled Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economy – was released at the United Nations at the Second PrepCom for the 2012 Rio+20 conference (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development). The PrepCom, held at the UN […]
Postdoctoral Fellow Rania Ghosn chaired a panel at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA) held March 3-6 in Montreal, Canada. The panel, entitled “Energy as Spatial Project,” addressed the central question: What potentialities do practices of architecture, urbanism, and landscape carry in embodying “alternative” energy spatialities? The session […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, was one of the invited expert speakers at a plenary of the Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting (IPM) for the Nineteenth Session of the United Nations […]
Former Pardee Summer Fellow Stephanie Edwards will be presenting this week at the 2011 Mardi Gras Conference at Louisiana State University. The conference is hosted by the English Graduate Student Association under the theme “Echoes of Trauma: Exploring the Intersections of Trauma and Culture.” Ms. Edwards’ presentation is rooted in her research completed during her […]