The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to present its Spring 2021 Pardee House webinar series, which featured a series of conversations hosted by Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam with leading experts on the future of various long-term, global issues. All webinars in this series […]
On November 13, the Pardee Center hosted a seminar featuring Adel Daoud, a Docent/Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a Bell Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he explored the impacts of IMF programs on child poverty in low- and middle-income countries using a […]
On October 22, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted the launch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2019 Trade and Development Report. The event featured Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division at UNCTAD, who […]
On October 17, the Pardee Center hosted a seminar titled “The Informal Economy: Implications for Development, the Environment, and Health.” The seminar featured Pardee Center Faculty Associate Lawrence Were (BU School of Public Health & Sargent College); Hwa-Young Lee (Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health); Afreen Siddiqi (MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics […]
Laurence Delina, a former senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper titled “ICTs for delivering climate-development strategies: an informational governance framework for local climate-development organizations” published in the journal Climate and Development. Around the world, a growing number of “climate-development organizations” (CDOs) — particularly […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Demography is not Destiny: The Faulty Link Between Population and Development,” was written by Kristen Carey, a PhD candidate in the department of history and a 2018 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow. […]
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 […]
On November 29, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a seminar exploring the socioeconomic impacts of climate change in China. The seminar featured a presentation and discussion with Tao Ye, a Professor of Geographical Science at Beijing Normal University (BNU) and a Pardee Center Visiting Scholar. Prof. Ye […]
Kristen Carey, a PhD candidate in the Department of History and a 2018 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an article in The Conversation exploring population growth in Africa, the history of family planning policies in Tanzania, and the connection between demography and […]
Jim Stodder, a Visiting Professor in BU’s Metropolitan College and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently worked as a consultant on the Rec, a newly launched electronic “social currency” sponsored by the European Union and the City Council of Barcelona. Barcelona’s Rec (Real Economy Currency) is […]