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Boston University Annual Report 2014: Into a Boundless World
Bethany Saul (CAS'14) talks about the research she did after graduation studying Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan, using the multidisciplinary skills she learned as an international relations major at Boston University.
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Public Health Impacts of Climate Change in India
At a seminar hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 6, Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Sucharita Gopal, Susan Foster, and Bruce Anderson discussed the public health impacts of climate change [...]in India.
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Initiative on Cities
The mission of the Boston University Initiative on Cities (IoC) will be to engage researchers, policy makers, and constituencies from the United States and around the world to help plan for the development of the sustainable infrastructure and [...]essential services that will be required for cities to flourish in the years ahead.
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Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher, a contributing author to the Pardee Center Task Force Report titled 'Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review', moderated a discussion with Leonardo E. Stanley, Associate [...]Researcher in Economics at CEDES, and Deborah E. Siegel, a former Senior Counsel at the International Monetary Fund’s and currently an independent consultant.
The seminar was co-sponsored by the Center for Finance, Law and Policy, which also collaborated on publication of the report. The event marked the public release of the report, which was produced by the Pardee Center in conjunction with the Center for the Study of the State and Society (CEDES), in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Geoffrey West Explains Universal Scaling
Professor Geoffrey West explains how universal scaling laws found in biology can be applied to cities in this clip from the Frederick S. Pardee Center Distinguished Lecture given on April 4, 2013 and titled, Growth, Innovation, and the Accelerating [...]Pace of Life from Cells to Cities: Are They Sustainable?/pardee/
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The Minamata Convention on Mercury
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin (International Relations, BU) gives an account and history of The Minamata Convention on Mercury a global legally binding treaty on mercury use.The Minamata Convention is the first-ever agreement on a single element [...]and also the first global treaty governing environmental emissions in more than a decide. Watch the complete Pardee House Seminar titled The New Global Agreement on Mercury: Will It Make a Difference? here: /pardee/mercury/
Hosted by The Pardee Center on February 25, 2013.
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Dentistry and Mercury at the Minamata Convention
Panelists Prof. Noelle Eckley Selin, (Atmospheric Chemistry, MIT) and Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin (International Relations, BU) discuss the environmental and health consequences of using mercury in dental practice as well as the role dental [...]mercury played in The Minamata Convention on Mercury. Watch the complete Pardee House Seminar titled The New Global Agreement on Mercury: Will It Make a Difference? here: /pardee/mercury/
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The Urban Century: City States
Pardee Faculty Fellow Paul McManus, director of Boston University’s Sustainable Neighborhood Lab project, Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Nathan Phillips of the BU Earth and Environment Department, Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Susan Eckstein of the [...]Sociology Department, and Steven Strauss, former head of economic development strategy in New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a 2012 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University discuss city states t the Frederick S. Pardee Study for the Longer-Range Future at Boston University House Seminar "The Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Matters†on Thursday, December 13. The entire seminar is available here: /pardee/the-urban-century-seminar/
Hosted by The Pardee Center on December 13, 2012.
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The Urban Century: The Urban Metabolism
Pardee Faculty Fellow Nathan Phillips discusses "The Urban Metabolism" and how the information he gathers from tracking carbon dioxide from rooftops allows him to study cities as if they were organisms.
Prof. Philips of the BU Earth and [...]Environment Department gave this talk at the Frederick S. Pardee Study for the Longer-Range Future at Boston University House Seminar "The Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Matters†on Thursday, December 13. Paul McManus, director of Boston University’s Sustainable Neighborhood Lab project, moderated the panel, and Prof. Susan Eckstein of the Sociology Department, and Steven Strauss, former head of economic development strategy in New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a 2012 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University also spoke. The entire seminar is available here: /pardee/the-urban-century-seminar/
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