Richard Primack, a Professor of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will deliver the University Lecture on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 7 p.m. at the Tsai Performance Center. The lecture is titled “Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods,” based on his […]
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, 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 […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will discuss his recent book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation, at a seminar on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at the Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road (Lunch will be available beginning at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos was interviewed during a live segment on National Public Radio affiliate WBUR on June 9 about the leading role cities are playing in adopting measures to address the impacts of climate change. Prof. Janetos was interviewed on the Morning Edition program in relation to the announcement this week that in […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-sponsored the BU Conference on Sustainability Research on Monday, May 9. Approximately 100 people attended the one-day conference that featured presentations by Boston University faculty with a diverse range of expertise on their research related to sustainability issues (a full list of presenters can be […]