Laurence Delina, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored his fourth book, titled Emancipatory Climate Actions: Strategies from histories. The book, published by Palgrave Macmillan, offers strategies for strengthening climate change activism based on the mechanisms that made previous large-scale social movements successful. […]
Les Kaufman, a professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a book chapter published in the new second edition of Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere (Yale University Press 2019), edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently discussed the “Extinction Rebellion” — a group of climate activists holding public demonstrations in the U.K. — for The World in 2:00, Talk Media News’ flagship world news radio broadcast. During the interview, Delina expressed support […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the Global Development Policy Center recently co-hosted a three-day workshop and seminar series exploring the environmental science, policy, and land use impacts of remote sensing in tropical forests. The series, convened by Pardee Center […]
Kira Sullivan-Wiley, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the lead author of a recent paper titled “Mapping vulnerability: Opportunities and limitations of participatory community mapping.” The paper, published in the journal Applied Geography, is co-authored by Anne Short Gianotti, a Pardee Center Faculty Associate and Associate […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics titled “The Politics of Energy and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.” In his chapter, Delina explores the politics surrounding the 7th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG7), which calls for […]
Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth & Environment, will give a public talk on the scientific evidence for climate change and its impacts at Memorial Hall Library in Andover, MA, on Wednesday, March 6 at 7:00 […]
Jim Stodder, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Visiting Professor of the Practice at Metropolitan College, hosted an all-day workshop exploring carbon tax forecasting at the Pardee Center on February 8. A carbon tax has long been viewed as a potentially viable […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently discussed his newest book, Climate Actions: Transformative Mechanisms for Social Mobilisation, at a Pardee Center seminar on January 31, 2019. The book, published by Palgrave Macmillan, gives an overview of global climate change action and explores ways […]
Pardee Center Director Prof. Anthony Janetos recently attended the Glen Gerberg Weather and Climate Summit in Breckenridge, CO, where he gave a talk on the results of the 4th US National Climate Assessment (NCA4). The Assessment, on which Prof. Janetos was one of many contributing authors, was completed in November 2018, providing the most thorough and […]