Making the Great Transformation (Conference)

Series: Pardee Center Conference Series
Organized by: Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Primary Speakers: Robert Kaufmann, Adil Najam, Cutler Cleveland, and Peter Saundry
Dates: November 13, 14, and 15, 2003
Location: Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University, Boston, MA
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- Foreword by Cutler Cleveland
- Conference Participants
- Introduction and Welcome from Adil Najam
- Keynote Address
- “Human Development Report 2003, Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty”
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr - Presentations
- SESSION ONE
- "What Are Great Transformations?"
Robert Kaufmann, Discussion Leader - "On the Well-being of Nations”
Robert Prescott-Allen, presenter - “Contours of the Possible: Global Scenarios and Great Transitions”
Paul Raskin, presenter - SESSION TWO
- "How do transformations happen?"
Adil Najam, Discussion Leader - “Public Health in the Time of Great Transition”
David Ozonoff, presenter - “The Demographic Transition: Instinct, By-product, or Design?”
John Haaga, presenter - “Energy Transitions Past, Present, and Future”
Cutler Cleveland, presenter - SESSION THREE
- "What Drives Transformations? "
Cutler Cleveland, Discussion Leader - “Shifting Public-Private Involvement: A Public Good Perspective”
Pedro Conceição, presenter - “The World Is a Third-World Country”
Tariq Banuri, presenter - SESSION FOUR
- "Transformations in the Making"
Peter Saundry, Discussion Leader - “Defining and Pursuing a Multidimensional Sustainability Transformation”
Barry Hughes, presenter - “Connecting Bangladeshi Villages”
Iqbal Z. Quadir, presenter




