This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the 17th cohort of its Graduate Summer Fellows program to the Center. This year’s session includes BU graduate students representing seven different academic departments. During the first week of the program, the Fellows participated in an orientation session led by Pardee Center […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) have launched a future-oriented, interdisciplinary, and structured research initiative to explore the moral dimensions of climate action and the possible role of faith-based values in encouraging positive environmental and climate behaviors – particularly in the […]
Jorge Heine, Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, has been awarded the Pardee School’s 2023 Adil Najam Prize and Fellowship for Advancing the Public Understanding of Global Affairs. The Adil Najam Prize is awarded annually to […]
Sam Deese and Michael Holm, Senior Lecturers in the College of General Studies and former Faculty Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, are the co-editors of a new book exploring how liberal democracy can better adapt to the challenges of our time by evolving beyond the […]
Bruce Anderson, a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has published a new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research in which he details his discovery of a new ocean/atmosphere climate variation in the northern Pacific […]
The Global Development Policy Center, the Institute for Sustainable Energy, and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invite you to a talk by Frank Ackerman about his latest book, Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance. Ackerman, Principal Economist at Synapse Energy and Research Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI), will […]
A new National Science Foundation (NSF) report released today establishes a research agenda for sustainable urban systems in coming decades. The report, titled Sustainable Urban Systems: Articulating a Long-Term Convergence Research Agenda, is intended to serve as a guide for the direction of research on cities in the face of unprecedented urbanization. Fewer than one-third of the world’s population […]
Session I: Measuring Sustainability Session II: Modeling Sustainability Session III: Human Dimensions of Sustainability Session IV: Future of Sustainability Please join us for the BU Conference on Sustainability Research on Monday, May 9 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at the Boston University Photonics Building at 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th floor. This one-day conference […]
Marta Marello, a researcher at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke at the fifth Massachusetts Sustainable Communities and Campuses Conference held on Friday, April 15th at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. The conference objective was to disseminate best practices and resources to advance sustainable development on campuses and […]
Pardee Center Director ad interim James McCann has been appointed Visiting Distinguished Professor at Universität Hamburg’s Hiob Ludolf Zentrum für Äthiopistik (Center for the Study of Ethiopia). In residence in Hamburg through early July, he is conducting research for his project on malaria landscape history and teaching a six-week seminar titled “African Environmental History: The […]