A panel of experts spoke about the impact of cancer and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the developing world at a seminar on February 24 hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The seminar, titled “Cancer and NCDs in the Developing World: The Looming Crisis in Global Health,” was moderated by Pardee […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a seminar titled “Cancer and NCDs in the Developing World: The Looming Crisis in Global Health” on Wednesday, February 24 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at the Metcalf Trustee Center at 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor. Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow […]
France’s Special Representative to the Paris climate change talks last December spoke publicly for the first time on Feb. 8 at Boston University about what it took to orchestrate both the two-week long climate change negotiation session and the agreement that came out of it. Ambassador Laurence Tubiana was the featured speaker at the event […]
On Wednesday, January 27, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a presentation and discussion titled “Credit-driven bubbles and crises in the macroeconomic and financial system: the Eurace agent-based modeling approach,” featuring Prof. Marco Raberto of the University of Genoa. Prof. Raberto presented the agent-based modeling approach to investigate […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a symposium on Tuesday, November 17 at the Boston University School of Law titled, “Adaptation Strategies: Coping with Climate Change and Natural Disasters in Developed and Developing Countries.” Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos gave an introduction, followed by presentations by Richard Moss (Senior Scientist, […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a book seminar Nov. 13 on European Union and Environmental Governance (2015, Routledge) with authors Prof. Henrik Selin (Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University) and Prof. Stacy D. VanDeveer (University of New Hampshire). Prof. Selin, a Pardee Center Faculty Associate, provided an overview of the European Union’s membership, […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a symposium on Tuesday, November 17 titled, “Adaptation Strategies: Coping with Climate Change and Natural Disasters in Developed and Developing Countries.” Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos gave an introduction before presentations by Richard Moss (Senior Scientist, Joint Global Change Research Institute) and Kira Sullivan-Wiley […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming book seminar on European Union and Environmental Governance (2015, Routledge) by Prof. Henrik Selin (Boston University) and Prof. Stacy D. VanDeveer (University of New Hampshire) on Friday, November 13, 2015 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm at the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies recently co-hosted “Prospects for Paris,” a two-seminar series featuring expert panels on the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change conference to be held this December in Paris. The first seminar, titled “The Role of […]
Prof. James McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology, and agriculture of Africa, spoke about his recently published book, The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits, at a seminar hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on Tuesday, September 29. The book is an […]