Pardee Center Faculty Associate Prof. Henrik Selin and Pardee School Dean Adil Najam recently received funding to lead a United States Institute for Peace (USIP) research study on perceived links between climate change and security in Pakistan. The project will explore the extent to which climate change is characterized as a national or human security issue by […]
Calynn Dowler, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and a 2017 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper at the 46th Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin. Dowler’s paper, titled “Migration and Environment in India’s Sundarbans Islands: Linking Public […]
Joseph Harris, an assistant professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has published a new book titled Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press 2017). In the book, Prof. Harris explores the dynamics that made universal health […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Transboundary Threats in the Mekong Basin: Protecting a Crucial Fishery,” was written by Irit Altman, a Pardee Center Visiting Research Fellow and Research Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University. In the […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper in the journal International Environmental Agreements. In the paper, Delina explores how and why the role of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in climate finance is increasing by analyzing energy projects supported by the Asian Development Bank […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, delivered a talk at the “Energy Transitions in Asia” symposium held at Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) in Nanjing, China on September 23, 2016. The talk, titled “Producing energy futures in developing […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a seminar titled “The New Silk Roads: Will China’s Investments Enrich the World?” on Monday, March 21 from 12:00 to 2:00 pm at the Terrace Lounge on the 2nd floor of the George Sherman Union. In late 2013, China launched the […]
Click here to download the PDF. In this Issues in Brief, 2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Laurie Wissler explores the challenges faced by smallholder palm oil farmers, particularly in Southeast Asia. Smallholders operating less than 50 hectares of land produce about one-third of the global palm oil supply, but their livelihoods are threatened by land conflicts, market […]