{"id":63026,"date":"2026-02-18T14:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=63026"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:53:17","slug":"najam-publishes-new-book-chapters-on-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2026\/02\/18\/najam-publishes-new-book-chapters-on-sustainable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Najam Publishes New Book Chapters on Sustainable Development"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Adil Najam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, has recently contributed two chapters in a new book, From Fragility to Resilience: Enhancing Sustainable Development<\/i><\/a>. The book was edited by Uzma Tariq Haroon, Sarah Siddiq Aneel, and Tatyana Hanif and published by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI).<\/p>\n

Najam’s chapters, titled Rethinking Climate, Agriculture and Digital Transformation in Pakistan<\/em> (Chapter 8) and Moving Past the 1% Narrative<\/em> (Chapter 13), address the role of agriculture and sustainable development in Pakistan. Both chapters are based on a presentation Najam made at the 27th<\/sup> Annual Sustainable Development Conference held in Islamabad, Pakistan.<\/p>\n

\"\"The chapter titled Rethinking Climate, Agriculture and Digital Transformation in Pakistan<\/em>\u00a0argues that climate policy in developing countries like Pakistan should focus much more on the felt climate needs of Pakistanis themselves rather than be simply moved by the latest whims of international negotiations and climate COPs. It stresses on the necessity and also the opportunity of creating bottom-up climate policies in agriculture that focus much more on adaptation and, increasingly, loss and damage. Najam suggests that with the “Age of Adaptation” now upon us, there is an urgency for doing so but also a national need, and possibility local will.<\/p>\n

Najam’s additional chapter in the same book, Moving Past the 1% Narrative<\/em>, is a hard-hitting call for developing countries to get past the victimhood framework in international climate negotiations. Najam argues that while it is entirely true that developing countries like Pakistan have not been the primary cause of global warming emissions, but the fact is that simply stating this fact has had little to no impact on industrialized countries in terms of giving developing countries fair treatment and now the reality of the “Age of Adaptation” is upon us. Rather than running after international climate finance that is not materializing, developing countries should focus on those adaptation policies that are most beneficial for the lives and livelihoods of their own citizens, in this case farmers and the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n

The book can be read online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adil Najam<\/a> is Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He served as the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies from 2014-2022. He is also a former Vice-Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Read more about Najam on his Pardee School faculty profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, has recently contributed two chapters in a new book, From Fragility to Resilience: Enhancing Sustainable Development. The book was edited by Uzma Tariq Haroon, Sarah Siddiq Aneel, and Tatyana Hanif and published by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). Najam’s chapters,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25562,"featured_media":63028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11797],"tags":[12542,1720,12867,9139,13366,8493,1697],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63033,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63026\/revisions\/63033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}