宏观经济中心

The Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy fosters the interdisciplinary formulation, 设计, demonstration and 辩论 of large-scale project proposals that can contribute to human progress through the improvement of world habitat.

与受邀的领导人, faculty and students concentrating on clearly-defined issues of importance to the world community -- land, 水, 能源, 食品供应, 运输, 环境, 住房, 教育, health and heritage -- the Center annually follows through on steps needed to 设计, 显示, 辩论, 评估, 测试, and in appropriate cases, deploy undertakings of relevance and urgency.

The Center is inspired by the work of Frank Davidson, best known as co-founder of the English Channel Tunnel Study Group in the 1950s, and participant in large scale undertakings from the U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s and 1940s, to MIT's Macro-Engineering 研究 Group from the 1970s to the 1990s. Davidson was awarded a 2003 Honorary Degree from Roger Williams University, and is a member of the university’s Board of Overseers.

“The perception that development and conservation are separate endeavors is at the heart of current conflict and violence between cultures. A vision balancing creation and conservation is needed, in projects of a broad and inclusive scale, to provide a way forward in world affairs.”

史蒂夫·怀特
Director, Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy