Pablo Suarez, a Pardee Center Visiting Research Fellow and Associate Director for Research and Innovation at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, recently designed and facilitated a “cartoonathon” exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on the future of humanitarian work. The event, hosted by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Solferino Academy, included over […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently welcomed Visiting Research Fellow Qinmei Han, a geographer from Beijing Normal University (BNU) who studies the heat-related health impacts of climate change. Qinmei’s 18-month appointment is the result of a memorandum of understanding co-signed by the Pardee Center and the BNU School of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently welcomed Visiting Research Fellow Andrea Capurro, a marine biologist from Argentina who specializes in the conservation and management of Antarctic marine living resources. Currently, Capurro is a lead scientist on the proposal of a marine protected area in the West Antarctic Peninsula […]
Roel Boumans, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk at the 3rd Symposium on Global Sustainability in Rome. In his presentation, Boumans compared recent data with model scenarios from his Global Unified Metamodel of the Biosphere (GUMBO), developed in 2002 to simulate […]
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 […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a TEDx talk in Modena, Italy, exploring how humor can help improve communication, build relationships, enhance problem solving, increase productivity, and strengthen leadership. Because risk management requires creative learning and dialogue, Suarez has been […]
A new paper published today in Nature Communications by researchers from Boston University, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming. Most previous studies explored this topic for a single country […]
Over the course of the past two weeks, the Graduate Summer Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future have had a lunch discussion with Center Director Prof. Anthony Janetos, attended a reception with program alumni, and participated in an interactive game session designed to improve decision-making about the […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently hosted an original, interactive game session focused on art for risk communication at the National University of Singapore Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (NUS-LRFI). Suarez, who was recently appointed Artist-in-Residence at […]
On July 10, the Graduate Summer Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future participated in an interactive game session designed to improve decision-making about the future. The session was hosted by Pardee Center Visiting Research Fellows Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez, co-authors of a 2012 Pardee Center Task Force Report […]