Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, presented a paper at the 1.5 Degrees Conference organized by the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Monasterolo’s paper, titled “When the elephant meets the mouse: modeling the impact of fossil fuels and renewable energy subsidies on […]
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 […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, discussed his recent book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation, at a Pardee Center seminar on September 27, 2016. In the book, which was published in June by Routledge Press, Delina explores whether the rapid mobilization in preparation for […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a workshop July 13-15 for an international group of scholars, practitioners, and government officials from 12 developing countries as part of a research program titled The Future of Energy Systems in Developing Countries. Pardee Center Post-doctoral Associate Laurence Delina convened the gathering […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a special lecture titled “New Paradigms for Delivering Affordable and Just Energy Access: Insights from the Social Sciences” with Prof. Benjamin Sovacool on Thursday, July 14. Prof. Sovacool discussed how small-scale renewable energy technologies, such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and […]
Margaret Hendrick, a 2013 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has accepted a post-doctoral associate position with the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) beginning in Fall 2016. The ISE is a university-wide institute, administered by the Questrom School of Business, that assists and promotes faculty research, […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article on the climate change action movement published in the journal Interface. The article, titled “Strengthening the climate action movement: strategies from contemporary social action campaigns,” argues that climate activism must be bolstered in order to accelerate the transition to a […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a special lecture titled “New Paradigms for Delivering Affordable and Just Energy Access: Insights from the Social Sciences” with Prof. Benjamin Sovacool on Thursday, July 14 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at the Metcalf Trustee Center. Prof. Sovacool will discuss how small-scale […]
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 […]