Research
The Pardee Center produces policy-relevant research and analytical tools focused on enhancing the future of human well-being. The Center's research explores questions within three focal areas: Patterns of Human Development, Patterns of Societal Development, and Interactions Between Human, Social, and Biophysical Systems. The Center's many clients include non-governmental organizations, international governmental organizations, governments, corporations, think tanks, and others.
Patterns of Human Development
The Center’s work in this area is currently focused on progress, and impediments to progress, toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We explore questions like:
- What are the long-term patterns of human development across countries and regions and how do changes in the dynamics across human, social, and natural systems impact sustainable human development?
- How can progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and successor goals be anticipated and accelerated, including analysis of trade-offs and synergies that most impact human wellbeing?
- What is the future of income and wealth inequality around the world and how does it interact with the ability of societies to adapt to a changing climate or the vulnerability of societies to social instability?