Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper on the effects of “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) policies in China. The paper, titled “Rural household income distribution and inequality in China: Effects of payments for ecosystem services policies and other factors,” was […]
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 “Agricultural Diversity Across Scales: Key to Building a Resilient Global Food System,” was written by John Patrick Casellas Connors, a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2018 and currently an Assistant Professor in the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University is pleased to welcome Qi Zhang as a post-doctoral associate. Qi Zhang is a geographer who endeavors to better understand human-environment interactions based on the theories of both physical and social sciences. He integrates spatial and socioeconomic data to investigate […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently discussed his newest book, Climate Actions: Transformative Mechanisms for Social Mobilisation, at a Pardee Center seminar on January 31, 2019. The book, published by Palgrave Macmillan, gives an overview of global climate change action and explores ways […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a lecture titled “Wartime Mobilisation and Rapid Climate Change” hosted by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies program. The lecture was based in large part on Delina’s first book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation (Routledge […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently convened a small group of Boston-based academics and practitioners for a full-day workshop at the Pardee Center to explore emerging research opportunities related to making clean energy transitions better. The participants shared their ongoing work and […]
Pardee Center post-doctoral associate Kira Sullivan-Wiley and Faculty Associate Prof. Anne Short Gianotti recently co-authored a paper on agricultural management in eastern Uganda in the journal Land Use Policy. The paper, titled “Pursuing productivity gains and risk reduction in a multi-hazard landscape: A case study from eastern Uganda,” explores the co-beneficial role that agricultural land […]
John Patrick Connors (an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University and a former Pardee Center post-doctoral associate) and Anne Short Gianotti (an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Associate) were recently awarded a $375,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support their […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University is pleased to welcome Kira Sullivan-Wiley as a post-doctoral associate. Sullivan-Wiley, who was a Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow in 2015, is a behavioral geographer using tools from the spatial and social sciences to better understand human-environment relationships. She uses […]
Laurence Delina, a postdoctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper with Prof. Benjamin Sovacool laying out an epistemic and governance agenda for advancing sustainable energy transitions and energy access. The article, published in the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, gives an overview of the Sustainable Development Goals and […]