Laurence Delina, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a 139-page commissioned white paper on China-Philippine cooperation on climate change action, of which Oxfam has published a 15-page summary. In the white paper, Delina makes the case for cooperation between government agencies and civil […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-chaired the International Council for Exploration of the Seas Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (ICES WGHIST) annual meeting at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom last week. The ICES WGHIST […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently invited by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean Campaign to give an organization-wide talk on her work on Southern Ocean management conducted over the past three years. In this work, Klein and her collaborators at […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper exploring an approach to detect expanding impervious surfaces, such as rooftops, roads, and sidewalks, in Nanchang, China. The paper, titled “An efficient approach to capture continuous impervious surface dynamics using spatial-temporal rules and dense Landsat time series […]
Laurence Delina, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored his fourth book, titled Emancipatory Climate Actions: Strategies from histories. The book, published by Palgrave Macmillan, offers strategies for strengthening climate change activism based on the mechanisms that made previous large-scale social movements successful. […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently discussed the “Extinction Rebellion” — a group of climate activists holding public demonstrations in the U.K. — for The World in 2:00, Talk Media News’ flagship world news radio broadcast. During the interview, Delina expressed support […]
Several scholars affiliated with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future presented research at the 2019 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting held from April 3-7 in Washington, DC. Post-doctoral associate Laurence Delina presented a paper titled, “Energy Use for Productive Purposes as Indicator for Energy Access: Lessons Learned […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University is pleased to welcome Emily Klein as a senior post-doctoral associate. Broadly, Emily is interested in better understanding the dynamics, structure, and resilience of coupled human-natural systems through time and space, and how that knowledge can guide decisions and policies […]
Kira Sullivan-Wiley, 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 titled “Mapping vulnerability: Opportunities and limitations of participatory community mapping.” The paper, published in the journal Applied Geography, is co-authored by Anne Short Gianotti, a Pardee Center Faculty Associate and Associate […]
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 […]