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Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI), along with Georgetown University’s Harrison Institute for Public Law, hosted an international experts’ workshop titled “Reconciling Trade and Climate Change Policy: Opportunities and Challenges” on Monday, April 25 at the Pardee Center. Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow […]
John Patrick Connors, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently wrote a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (2016, Routledge). The book, edited by Karen C. Seto, William D. Solecki, Corrie A. Griffith, provides an overview of how urbanization influences global environmental […]
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 […]
Sir Robert Tony Watson, the world’s leading authority on integrated scientific assessments, discussed his experiences over the past 30 years and his views on the future of such assessments when he delivered the 2016 Pardee Center Distinguished Lecture at the Metcalf Trustee Center on April 11. The event was sponsored by the Frederick S. […]
Laurence L. Delina and John Patrick Connors, two postdoctoral associates at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently attended the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), held in San Francisco from March 29 to April 2. Delina presented a paper titled “Producing energy futures in […]
A panel of experts discussed the public health impacts of climate change in India at a seminar hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 6. The seminar was organized and moderated by Prof. Sucharita Gopal of the Department of Earth & Environment and featured Prof. Susan Foster of the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a seminar titled “Public Health Impacts of Climate Change in India” on Wednesday, April 6 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at The Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road. Prof. Sucharita Gopal of the Department of Earth & Environment (E&E) will moderate […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University invites you to attend its 2016 Distinguished Lecture, “Evidence-Based Policy or Policy-Based Evidence?” featuring Sir Robert Watson on Monday, April 11 from 5:00 – 6:30 pm (reception to follow) at the Metcalf Trustee Center at 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor. In […]
France’s Special Representative to the Paris climate change talks last December spoke publicly for the first time on Feb. 8 at Boston University about what it took to orchestrate both the two-week long climate change negotiation session and the agreement that came out of it. Ambassador Laurence Tubiana was the featured speaker at the event […]
Prof. Bruce Anderson, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment, received the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) 2016 Editor’s Award from the Journal of Climate. This award was given for his consistently outstanding and insightful reviews of […]