The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-sponsored the BU Conference on Sustainability Research on Monday, May 9. Approximately 100 people attended the one-day conference that featured presentations by Boston University faculty with a diverse range of expertise on their research related to sustainability issues (a full list of presenters can be […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the 2016 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows. These seven outstanding Boston University graduate students represent various schools and departments from across the university, including Earth and Environment, Philosophy, Biology, Political Science, History, and Public Health. Starting May 31st, the Graduate Summer […]
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 […]
Marta Marello, a researcher at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke at the fifth Massachusetts Sustainable Communities and Campuses Conference held on Friday, April 15th at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. The conference objective was to disseminate best practices and resources to advance sustainable development on campuses and […]
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 […]
Irit Altman, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been appointed as a Research Assistant Professor in Boston University’s Department of Biology. Prof. Altman is an ecologist and conservation scientist with extensive experience integrating ecological information into complex system models to understand ecosystem scale consequences of […]