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Maize & Malaria: An Economic Transformation
Prof. James McCann explains how an economic transformation lead to a transformation in agriculture and disease and what his five year Rockefeller Foundation study of the links between maize and malaria is doing about it.
More information including [...]the documentary "Maize & Malaria" is available at the Pardee Center multimedia page: /pardee/multimedia-library/2012-archive/maize-malaria-documentary/
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Center for Finance, Law & Policy South Africa Rising with Ebrahim Rasool
The South African Ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, discusses South Africa’s role as Africa’s leading economy and a model for diversified, sustainable emerging markets.
This event was co-sponsored by the African [...]Presidential Center, in cooperation with the African Studies Center, Global Development Policy Program, and Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
Hosted by the BU Center for Finance, Law & Policy on February 17, 2012.
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Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds
‘Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds," part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, featured Professor Les Kaufman of the BU Marine Program and Conservation International as well as Professor [...]Richard Pollack and Professor Richard Primack both of the BU Department of Biology. The seminar was moderated by Pardee Center Director, Professor James McCann.
The event included discussions of the implications of the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria, insects and the diseases they bring with them and the study of the impact of climate change on the flowering times of plants and the spring arrival of birds.
Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on October 18, 2011.
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Geoffrey West on Universal Scaling and Innovation in Urban Planning
Frederick S. Pardee Center Distinguished lecturer Geoffrey West answers Pardee Faculty Fellow Enrique Silva's question about innovation in urban planing in the context of universal scaling at the Distinguished Lecture given on April 4, 2013 and [...]titled, Growth, Innovation, and the Accelerating Pace of Life from Cells to Cities: Are They Sustainable? www.bu.edu/pardee/
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Growth, Innovation, and the Accelerating Pace of Life from Cells to Cities: Are They Sustainable?
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University presents their 2013 Distinguished Lecture by Geoffrey West titled, "Growth, Innovation, and the Accelerating Pace of Life from Cells to Cities: Are They [...]Sustainable?" Geoffrey West is the former president of the Santa Fe Institute. The lecture is part of the Pardee Center Urban Century initiative. www.bu.edu/pardee
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Ethiopia In Movement
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University Director ad interim James McCann led a four-person roundtable panel sponsored by the Pardee Center at the 18th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies [...]in the city of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia on October 31-November 2nd. Ethiopia in Movement, made by award-wining Ethiopian filmmaker Aida Ashenafi captures the panelists in the heart of the city. Panelists include former Pardee Post-doctoral Fellow Heran Sereke-Brhan, Stefan Bruene, (Hamburg University and Intergovernmental Authority on Development), Masresha Fetene, Vice President for Research, (Addis Ababa University), and His Excellency Xavier Marchal, European Community Ambassador to Ethiopia. They raise issues that range from intellectual property, commercial farming versus conservation, use of longer-range perspectives to open dialogues between antagonistic state agenda, and the need for basic science education in regional higher education. /pardee/
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Maize & Malaria: The History of a Landscape
Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Director ad interim James McCann Professor describes the history of a Waktola, Ethiopia landscape, the site of the five-year Rockefeller Foundation funded study of the links [...]between maize and malaria. Prof. McCann is a principal investigator of the project.
More information including the documentary "Maize & Malaria" is available at the Pardee Center multimedia page: /pardee/multimedia-library/2012-archive/maize-malaria-documentary/
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Sustianable Development at the Global Level
International climate change law and policy expert Prof. Joyeeta Gupta of VU University Amsterdam answers a question about which aspects of sustainable development can be done at the global level in a clip from an October 2012, Frederick S. Pardee [...]Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Lecture titled, “Sustainable Development Governance: ‘Glocal’ Challenges and Opportunities.â€
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A Case for Global Governance
International climate change law and policy expert Prof. Joyeeta Gupta of VU University Amsterdam makes an argument for a global governance system enforcing environmental standards in the October 2012, Frederick S. Pardee Cente Lecture titled [...]“Sustainable Development Governance: ‘Glocal’ Challenges and Opportunities.â€
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