Residence Boston, Massachusetts Nationality United States | Fields Risk, Geography Name Roger Kasperson | |
Alma mater University of Chicago
Clark University Known for Risk Analysis
Risk Assessment
Risk perception
Social Amplification and Attenuation of Risk | ||
Roger Kasperson (born 1938) is an American risk analyst, a distinguished academic and professor at Clark University and is one of the proponents of Risk perception studies with his work on The Social Amplification/Attentuation of Risk Framework (SARF).
Honored by the Association of American Geographers for his research on hazards, he also served on various committees of the U.S. National Research Council (a.k.a., National Science Foundation) as well as the council of the Society for Risk Analysis and was given the 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award of the SRA. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and served as executive director for the Stockholm Environment Institute 2000–2004.
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