Anne Short and Paul E. McManus join the Pardee Center as new Faculty Fellows

The Frederick S. Pardee Center welcomes two new additions. Dr. Anne Short is Assistant Professor of Geography and Environment at Boston University. Paul McManus is Executive-in-Residence at the School of Management at Boston University.

Dr. Short conducts research and teaches classes on human-environment relations, environmental governance, and sustainable development.

She is the author of articles on environmental management and rural land-use change, the science-policy interface and collaborative planning, sustainability indicators, and urban food security.  Her current research focuses on the governance of environmental challenges on multi-functional rural landscapes and the relationships of formal and informal environmental institutions.

McManus is an Executive-in-Residence at the School of Management at Boston University. He is also Executive Director of the Sustainable Neighborhood Lab (SNL), and the Managing Director of the Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC).

Prior to joining the faculty at Boston University full time in 2006, McManus was a Venture Partner with Boston Millennia Partners.

McManus is on the steering committees for the Boston University Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative (CEESI), the Sustainable Buildings Committee of Sustainability@BU, and he Co-Chairs the Sustainable Communities sub-committee.   In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors for the Cleantech Open, and a member of the New England Clean Energy Council, Cambridge, MA.