Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, delivered a talk at the “Energy Transitions in Asia” symposium held at Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) in Nanjing, China on September 23, 2016. The talk, titled “Producing energy futures in developing […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, discussed his recent book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation, at a Pardee Center seminar on September 27, 2016. In the book, which was published in June by Routledge Press, Delina explores whether the rapid mobilization in preparation for […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will discuss his recent book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation, at a seminar on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at the Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road (Lunch will be available beginning at […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a workshop July 13-15 for an international group of scholars, practitioners, and government officials from 12 developing countries as part of a research program titled The Future of Energy Systems in Developing Countries. Pardee Center Post-doctoral Associate Laurence Delina convened the gathering […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article on the climate change action movement published in the journal Interface. The article, titled “Strengthening the climate action movement: strategies from contemporary social action campaigns,” argues that climate activism must be bolstered in order to accelerate the transition to a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, had her research presented at a recent conference titled “Climate Change: The Finance Sector and Pathways to 2°C” at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Paris. The event, sponsored by the 2° Investing Initiative, the Oxford […]
Laurence L. Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will serve on the Advisory Board of The Climate Mobilization, a non-profit organization whose mission is “to protect civilization and the natural world from catastrophic climate disruption.” The Advisory Board, which will “provide insight, expertise from […]
Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, traveled to Italy to present her research at two recent conferences. On September 17, she presented a paper titled ‘Modelling fiscal and monetary policy strategies for fostering green investments: a system dynamics model with heterogeneous agents’ at the 27th Annual Conference […]