Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-chaired the annual meeting for the International Council for Exploration of the Seas Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (ICES WGHIST). Klein has co-chaired the WGHIST for the past six years with Ruth […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article exploring historical examples of “blue growth”—a concept akin to the “green economy” that promotes sustainable ocean management—in The Brink. The article follows the publication of a major study in the journal Fish and Fisheries in […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been awarded a Microsoft AI for Earth grant as principal investigator to support his research on monitoring the dynamics of cropping cycles using long-term satellite imagery. Increasing the frequency of crop harvests can be a climate-friendly means of […]
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 […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper on historical lessons for the future implementation of “blue growth” strategies, a concept that aims to promote growth in ocean economies while managing marine systems. The paper, titled “Something old, something new: Historical […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper on the human dimensions of fisheries in the journal Fish and Fisheries. In the paper, titled “Opportunities for agent‐based modelling in human dimensions of fisheries,” the authors explore the importance of agent-based […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, edits a quarterly newsletter, the Oceans Past News, which released its most recent edition this month. The Oceans Past News aspires to unite and inform the global community interested in long-term and historical perspectives of marine social-ecological […]
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 […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2015-2019, recently began a new position as an assistant professor at the Division of Environment and Sustainability at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Delina will be continuing his collaboration with the Pardee Center […]
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 […]