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Future Challenges: Global Development Beyond the Financial Crisis
After the upheaval of last year's global financial collapse and the resulting stimulus spending, what comes next for the world's major economies and struggling nations? Three panelists, moderated by Pardee Center Director Adil Najam, debate the role [...]of the International Monetary Fund, the United States, East Asia, and other players in reconstructing the world economy.
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Center for the Study of Asia on October 9, 2009.
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Beyond the Energy Crisis
Three Boston University scholars assess the world's current energy use and predict the shape of energy policy as part of the Future Challenges series at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The panel includes Cutler Cleveland, [...]Uday Pal, and Moeed Yusuf (GRS'04).
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, and the Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative on September 22, 2008.
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“The Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Mattersâ€
Paul McManus, director of Boston University’s Sustainable Neighborhood Lab project, moderated the panel, which included Prof. Nathan Phillips of the BU Earth and Environment Department, 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.
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Maize & Malaria
This 25 minute documentary short details the recent research of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Director ad interim James McCann. Prof. McCann is a principal investigator for a five-year Rockefeller-funded [...]study of the links between maize and malaria in Ethiopia. Through interviews conducted at a research meeting at Pardee House in December 2011 and other existing footage, this video reports on the maize-malaria connection and reviews the discovery, extent and consequences of the link and potential remedies from the perspectives of agro-ecology, entomology, and human ecology. This case study may inform further research on the links between large-scale agro-ecological shifts and coincidental incidences of vector-borne diseases.
Background
Maize production dramatically expanded in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s as part of a multilateral policy to increase local food supplies. By 2020, maize is expected to become the world's dominant food crop.
Meanwhile, the burden of malaria has progressively increased in a spatial and temporal pattern consistent with maize cultivation. Maize pollen shed to the environment provides substantial nourishment for Anopheles mosquito larvae and promotes development of more robust adults. Intensified maize cultivation thereby contributes locally to the force of malaria transmission. The apparent maize-malaria link is an unanticipated consequence of the dramatically changing agro-ecological dynamics of food crop production in Africa, and has obvious implications for the smallholder farmers in the region.
Intensified Maize Cultivation Enhances Malaria Transmission in Ethiopia
A research project led by Boston University and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Principal Investigators:
James McCann, Professor of History and Director, ad interim, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
Richard Pollack, Research Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Boston University
Research partner institutions:
Ethiopian Ministry of Health/World Health Organization
African Studies Center, Boston University
Harvard School of Public Health
Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research
Additional footage of the research project in Ethiopia will be available on the Pardee Center Tumblr (bupardeecenter.tumblr.com)
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Sustainable Development Governance: ‘Glocal’ Challenges and Opportunities
Lecture given by Joyeeta Gupta, Professor of Climate Change Policy and Law at the VU University, Amsterdam.
Hosted by SMG on October 11, 2012.
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The Strategic Implications of China's Growing Trading Partnership with Africa
The South African Deputy Chief of Mission to the United States, Johnny Moloto, discusses opportunities for investment in Africa, and how China is capitalizing off of these opportunities.
Hosted by the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, African [...]Studies Program, Center for the Study of Asia, African Presidential Center, Global Development Program and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on March 29, 2012.
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WHO Controls the Future of Disease: Agroecology, Hydropower, and Malaria
Dr. William R. Jobin delivered the annual Pardee Distinguished Lecture “WHO Controls the Future of Disease: Agroecology, Hydropower, and Malaria,†citing dwindling global funds for malaria and disease prevention.
Hosted by the [...]Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on December 15, 2011.
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"Looking Ahead: Forecasting and Planning for the Longer-Range Future" Session 1
Pardee Center Conference Spring 2005
This meeting is concerned in great part with policy studies, with thinking about the future of the human race and the biosphere of the planet Earth. In looking at the longer-term future, many of us might divide [...]the various issues into categories such as military and diplomatic issues; or political issues, ideological issues, environmental issues, human health, and wellness issues, family issues, demographic issues, economic issues, technological issues, governance issues, issues of democracy and human rights, and so forth.
This meeting, held on April 7 – 9, 2005, is organized by Prof. David Fromkin and sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
Session 1: Long Term Policy Analysis
Presenter: James Dewar
Responder: Adil Najam
Presider: John Gerring
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The Global Land Rush: The Future of Food, Fuel, and Agricultural Development
Panel of researchers look at trends in foreign direct investment in land and its implications for the development and food security of Asian rural communities. They also discuss the history of American agricultural and environmental policy and the [...]international influence of U.S. rural development practices.
Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on November 15, 2011.
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