Roger E. Kasperson
Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist
and Visiting Scholar, START
The George Perkins Marsh Institute
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
508.751.4607 phone
508.751.4600 fax
email: rkasperson@clarku.edu
Current Research Interests
Roger Kasperson's research in recent years has focussed upon efforts to develop a stronger understanding of how the vulnerability of people, places and ecosystems can be better understood. Working with colleagues at Clark University, Harvard University, the Stockholm Environment Institute, and the University of South Carolina, he is preparing a stronger conceptual base for efforts at analysis and assessment and for management initiatives aimed at more robust approaches to reducing vulnerability and building resilience. A current project, under the coordination of Harvard University, involves developing strategies for bridging the gap between the worlds of science and practice. A second project involves the formulation of a conceptual framework for incorporating sustainability into several sectors of European environmental policy. A third National Science Foundation project, begun in 2005, involves the creation of improved methods for analyzing and managing highly uncertain risks. Included in this is a continuing interest in how adaptive management strategies can be used to improve societal anticipation and response to terrorist actions.Selected Publications
Kasperson, J.X. and R.E. Kasperson. 2005. The social contours of risk. London: Earthscan.
Pidgeon, N., R.E. Kasperson and P. Slovic. 2003. The social amplification of risk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Turner, B.L. II, R.E. Kasperson et al. 2003. A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 no. 14: 8074-8079.
Kasperson, J.X. and R.E. Kasperson. 2001. Border crossings. In Transboundary Risk Management in Europe, ed. J. Linnerooth-Bayer, R. Löfstedt, and G. Sjöstedt, 209-243. London: Earthscan.
Kasperson, J.X. and R.E. Kasperson, Eds. 2001. Global Environmental Risk. Tokyo/London: United Nations University Press and Earthscan.
Kasperson, R.E., J.X. Kasperson and B.L. Turner II. 1999. Risk and criticality: Trajectories of regional environmental degradation. Ambio 28 no. 6: 562-568.
Kasperson, J.X. and R.E. Kasperson, Eds. 1995. Regions at risk: Comparisons of threatened environments. Tokyo/New York: United Nations University Press.
Kasperson, R.E. 1994. Global environmental hazards: Political issues in societal responses. In Reordering the world: Geopolitical perspectives on the 21st century, ed. G.J. Demko and W.B. Wood, 141-166. Boulder: Westview.
Kasperson, R.E., and K. Dow. 1991. Developmental and geographical equity in global environmental change. Evaluation Review 15 no. 1: 147-169.
Kasperson, J.X. and R.E. Kasperson. 1987. Priorities in profile: Managing risks in developing countries. Risk Abstracts 4: 113-118.
