Prof. Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently participated in a day-long meeting on multiple breadbasket failure sponsored by the University of Wisconsin, the U.S. Geospatial Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service. The meeting was held at the USDA’s […]
Prof. Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, attended the spring meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) last week in Washington, DC. The Committee aims to bring together a wide range of expertise to advise the USGCRP […]
Radost Stanimirova, a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment, has been accepted as a fellow in the Young Scientists Summer Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna. Since 1977, IIASA’s annual three-month […]
Laurence Delina and John Patrick Connors, post-doctoral associates at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented their research at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2017 Annual Meeting in Boston. Delina presented a paper titled “The Pa Deng Model for rural energy transitions in Thailand: communities, configurations, contestations, and […]
Prof. Henrik Selin, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a Civic Series talk at Workbar Cambridge on international climate change agreements, specifically the Paris Agreement of 2015. Prof. Selin gave an overview of the history of the international climate regime, and then discussed […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a meeting with groups of scholars from Beijing Normal University and Boston University on April 10. The meeting, which was convened by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Bruce Anderson, was an opportunity to share research on climate change risk at the two universities. Pardee […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave an interview for Radio Ecoshock, a program syndicated over 92 radio stations across the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. The episode explored the question of how and why collapse happens, and featured experts on the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Conspicuously Absent: Shipping Emissions in Climate Change Policy,” was written by Rebecca Cowing, a 2016 graduate of Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies. The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement relies on state […]
Joshua Duclos, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a wide-ranging interview for NPR affiliate Wisconsin Public Radio about the morality of hunting. Duclos identified three rationales for hunting — therapeutic, subsistence, and sport […]
Prof. Thomas E. Lovejoy, an innovative and accomplished conservation biologist who coined the term “biological diversity,” delivered the 2017 Pardee Center Distinguished Lecture at the Metcalf Trustee Center on March 28, an event sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Speaking before a crowd of approximately 60 people (in […]