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Prospects for Paris: The Role of the U.S., the EU, and China
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies is co-hosting “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 the U.S., the EU, and China,†was moderated by Prof. Anthony Janetos (Pardee Center Director), and featured Prof. Henrik Selin (Pardee School of Global Studies) and Prof. Kelly Sims Gallagher (The Fletcher School, Tufts University).
October 26, 2015
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Pardee Center Seminar Chemicals, Products, and Health: Global Challenges
The health, business, and regulatory issues related to products that contain or are manufactured with toxic chemicals was the topic of discussion at this seminar sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on [...]March 19, 2015. Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin moderated the session and other speakers included BU Prof. Wendy Heiger-Bernays (School of Public Health) and Mark Rossi, co-director of Clean Production Action, and founder and chair of BizNGO.
March 19, 2015
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Assessing Climate Change and Its Impacts by Boston University Professor Anthony Janetos
This presentation was hosted by the Boston University Board of Trustees Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing. Dr. Janetos is a BU College of Arts & Sciences Earth & Environment Professor and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center [...]for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
April 28, 2015
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Climate Change & Contingent Adaptation: Strategies for South Asian Mega-Cities
Madhu Dutta-Koehler of BU's Metropolitan College discusses her research on climate change adaptation strategies as part of urban planning programs in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Kolkata, India.
Sponsored by the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer [...]Range Future
February 24, 2015
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IOC & Pardee Center Sea Level Rise Keynote Address The Science of Sea Level Rise and Climate Change
Anthony Janetos, Director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, discusses the science behind rising seas and how it impacts coastal cities around the world.
November 13, 2014
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Pardee Center Conference The Future is Now: Urban Asia in the 21st Century Panel 1
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a conference, “The Future is Now: Urban Asia in the 21st Century,†on Oct. 8, 2014 in the Metcalf Trustee Center on Boston University’s campus. Experts [...]from BU and elsewhere explored various aspects of the social and environmental impacts of urbanization in Asia. The conference was co-sponsored by BU’s Pardee Center, the Initiative on Cities, the Center for the Study of Asia, Global Programs India Initiatives, and the Center for Global Health and Development, in collaboration with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and BU’s Metropolitan College.
Opening remarks were given by Anthony Janetos (Director, Pardee Center, BU), Graham Wilson (Co-Director, Initiative on Cities, BU), and Eugenio Menegon (Director, Center for the Study of Asia, BU).
The day consisted of three panels. The first panel, Idea of the City: The Asian Challenge, was moderated by Deepti Nijhawan (Director, Global Programs India Initiative, BU). Speakers included Bish Sanyal (Director, Special Program on Urban and Regional Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Annette Kim (Director, Spatial Analysis Lab, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California), and Adil Najam (Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, BU).
October 8, 2014
More information can be found at www.bu.edu/pardee/urbanasia.
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Gitner Family College of Arts & Sciences Lecture
Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family College of Arts & Sciences Lecture: Advancing the human condition: An agenda for research & education
The first annual Gitner Lecture on September 18, 2014, is a discussion focused on what we need to learn, what we [...]need to know, and what we need to do to prepare for the next generation. Six CAS professors with diverse perspectives ranging from cyber security to carbon cycles are joined by respondents Anthony Janetos, Director of the Pardee Center for the Study for the Longer-Range Future; Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies; and Virginia Sapiro, Dean of CAS. Watch, learn, and think about our future as panelists discuss how their current fields of study can be leveraged to advance the human condition through discovery, teaching, and learning.
This lecture was made possible by a gift from Gerald (CAS ’66) and Deanne Gitner.
September 18, 2014
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Boston University Pardee Center Seminar: Freshwater, Floods, Fish, and the Future of a Nation
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University held the Pardee House Seminar, “Freshwater, Floods, Fish, and the Future of a Nation†on October 22, 2014. Panelists included Irit Altman [...](Biology, Boston University), Suchi Gopal (Earth & Environment, Boston University), Mauricio Arias (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University), and Pardee Faculty Fellow Les Kaufman (Biology, BU), who served as moderator.
The panelists work together on an interdisciplinary study co-led by Boston University and Conservation International. Their research examines the impacts of human-induced changes to freshwater ecosystems that provide food and livelihoods for a large number of people in the Mekong Delta region of Cambodia.
October 22, 2014
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2014 Pardee Distinguished Lecture
Rosina Bierbaum, science advisor to the White House and professor of natural resources and the environment at the University of Michigan, delivered this year's Pardee Distinguished Lecture, "Past is not Prologue: How Climate Change Alters Development [...]Prospects" on April 30th, 2014. More information on the presentation can be found at www.bu.edu/pardee
Sponsored by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center
for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
April 30, 2014
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