Henrik Selin, an Associate Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a new book examining efforts to achieve sustainability through the lens of human interactions with mercury throughout history. The book, titled Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson W. (Wally) Fulweiler and 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray recently published a paper exploring the impact of oysters on nitrogen cycling in coastal ecosystems in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS). Recent research has focused on quantifying the impact of oyster habitats on biogeochemical cycling in coastal ecosystems, but […]
Andrea Capurro, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently featured in a National Geographic documentary titled “The Antarctic Peninsula.” The documentary is the result of a 2019 expedition by the governments of Argentina and Chile in collaboration with National Geographic Pristine Seas, […]
Qi Zhang, 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 exploring the outcomes of China’s Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program (CCFP), one of the largest Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs in the world. In the paper, published […]
Governments might be able to prevent future pandemics by investing as little as $22 billion a year in programs to curb wildlife trafficking and stem the destruction of tropical forests, according to a new analysis by an international team of scientists and economists. In the paper, published July 24 in Science, the authors argue that […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Prof. Lucy Hutyra, Prof. Dan Li, and Prof. Pamela Templer recently co-authored a paper exploring the effects of increasing urban tree canopy cover as a nature-based solution to combat excess urban heat. Trees provide a wide range of ecosystem services, particularly in cities where their ability to cool local air […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored two papers on mangrove conservation and on the impacts of forest fires on ecosystem productivity in India. In the first paper, published in the journal Integrated Environment Assessment and Management, the authors identified conservation priority zones (CPZs) […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published two papers on the mangrove ecosystems in India’s Sundarbans Biosphere Region (SBR), a biodiversity hotspot that is acutely susceptible to the impacts of climate change. The region makes up nearly 3 percent of the Earth’s total area […]
The late Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013-2019, has been posthumously awarded the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2020 Distinguished Service Citation. The Distinguished Service Citation “recognizes long and distinguished volunteer service to ESA, the scientific community, and the larger purpose of ecology in […]
Laurence Delina, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper on indigenous peoples’ dissent against state and corporate incursions in their land, published in the journal Energy Research & Social Science. In the paper, Delina explains the widespread global suppression of indigenous […]