Tag: Deforestation
Kira Sullivan-Wiley, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, presented a paper titled “Reforestation intervention participation: the importance of goal-orientation and mixed methods for reforesting the Brazilian Atlantic Forest” at the 2019 Sustainability and Development Conference hosted by the University of Michigan from October 11-14. In the paper, Sullivan-Wiley […]
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 […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently hosted a special lecture by Frances Seymour, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute, exploring the role of tropical forests in efforts to mitigate climate change and advance sustainable development. Seymour’s talk was centered around her recent book, Why Forests? Why Now?: […]
Rachael Garrett, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently profiled in an article published by BU Research. The article highlights Prof. Garrett’s decade of experience in Brazil, where she has been interviewing farmers to better […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend an upcoming special lecture, “Why Forests? Why Now?” featuring Frances Seymour, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. The lecture will take place on the 4th floor of the Boston University Hillel House at 213 Bay State Road […]
Rachael Garrett, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper on the effectiveness of companies’ supply-chain initiatives aimed at reducing deforestation. The paper, titled “The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation,” was published in Nature Climate […]