{"id":29,"date":"2025-10-07T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:27:16","slug":"jeanne-x-kasperson-research-library","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/research\/jeanne-x-kasperson-research-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeanne X. Kasperson Research Library Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns sidebar is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45rem\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/library.avif\" alt=\"goddard library\" class=\"wp-image-2272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/library.avif 900w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/library-300x200.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/library-768x512.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-intro\">The Jeanne X. Kasperson Research Library Collection is an extensive collection of books related to environmental risk and hazards, environment and development, and the human dimensions of global environmental change. The Kasperson&#8217;s Collection also includes holdings in international development, water resources, technology, energy policy, and sustainability. The primary mission of the collection is to support Clark University\u2019s extensive environmental research programs. This includes but is not limited to programs conducted under the aegis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/climate-environment-society\/\">School of Climate Environment and Society<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/centers\/marsh-institute\/\">George Perkins Marsh Research Institute<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/\">Graduate School of Geography<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/sustainability-social-justice\/\">Department of Sustainability and Social Justice (formerly IDCE)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-intro\">In 2025 the Jeanne X. Kasperson Research Library Collection was moved to the Robert H. Goddard Library. All books will be made available to the Clark community at the conclusion of the relocation. Questions about the collection may be addressed to <a href=\"mailto:library@clarku.edu\">library@clarku.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><nav class=\"is-vertical wp-block-navigation is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-navigation-is-layout-2c14e10a wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Research Submenu\"><ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__container  is-vertical wp-block-navigation\"><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/research\/research-projects\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Research Projects<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/research\/jeanne-x-kasperson-research-library\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Jeanne X. Kasperson Research Library<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-white-color has-dark-green-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-a18d950b19fa23ede1da4dc50d984f61 is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c385debf wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<p>Kasperson Library Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email Goddard Library at <a href=\"mailto:Library@clarku.edu\">Library@clarku.edu<\/a> with questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-left-color:var(--wp--preset--color--gray-300);border-left-width:3px;flex-basis:10px\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Learn more about Jeanne X. Kasperson<\/summary>\n<p>Jeanne X. Kasperson earned a master\u2019s degree in English from The University of Chicago in 1962 and a master\u2019s degree in library science from Simmons College in 1967. After working in academic libraries at The University of Chicago, the University of Connecticut, and Michigan State University, she joined Clark in 1977 as a research Librarian for the Hazard Assessment Group and subsequently served as Research librarian for the University\u2019s Center for Technology, Environment, and Development, and later the George Perkins Marsh Library. For the years 2000-2002, Professor Kasperson was on leave from Clark with her husband and Clark Professor Roger Kasperson, conducting research at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout her career, Professor Kasperson was also an active researcher, pursuing scholarly interests in the general areas of risk analysis and global environmental change. In 1993, she was promoted to research associate professor in Clark\u2019s George Perkins Marsh Institute. She was the author of more than 80 articles, books and technical reports, editor of several journals and recipient of many research grants. She is also recognized by her colleagues as a key contributor to much of the research undertaken by the George Perkins Marsh Institute. She was co-editor of the Nature and Society section of the&nbsp;Annals of the Association of American Geographers&nbsp;with Roger Kasperson. Professor Kasperson was particularly fond of words and tracking down information that others believed could not be found, leading some colleagues to believe that when she walked through the library \u201cbooks talked to her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeanne X. Kasperson was a key member of a highly productive research group at Clark University, first at the Center for Technology, Environment, and Development (CENTED) and later in its successor the George Perkins Marsh Institute. This group worked primarily on risk and hazard issues and later on global environmental change. Jeanne\u2019s role was a combination of researcher, bibliographer, and repository of deep knowledge on the relevant literature, and writer and editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her publications have a prominent place in risk\/hazards and global change research. Her early research with other group members focused on hazards theory and methodology, substantially extending the earlier natural hazards paradigm. \u201cPerilous Progress: Managing the Hazards of Technology,\u201d published in 1985, summarized theoretical work and case study applications. Subsequent assessments with Robert Kates profiled the state of hazards research in the mid-1980s. In the latter part of the same decade, she co-authored a series of works addressing the \u201csocial amplification of risk,\u201d an integrated analytic approach addressing how society processes and responds to the flow of hazards and hazard events. During the 1990s, she collaborated with Roger Kasperson and Bill Turner on a comparative study of nine environmentally endangered regions around the world, resulting in \u201cRegions at Risk: Comparisons of Threatened Environments,\u201d published in 1995, and a series of related regional monographs published over the next five years. In 2001, she and Roger Kasperson published \u201cGlobal Environmental Risk,\u201d a work exploring the use of risk analysis to understand global environmental change. A work is currently in preparation collecting significant work of Jeanne and her husband Roger, which will be published in 2003 by Earthscan Press.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile section has-white-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-in-memory-of-dr-roger-kasperson-59\">In Memory of Dr. Roger Kasperson \u201959<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark University is saddened by the passing of Dr. Roger Kasperson \u201959, longtime professor of geography, former provost, former director of the George Perkins Marsh Institute, and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Memorial donations may be made to the Jeanne X. Kasperson Library Endowed Fund.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/Roger-Kasperson-Geography-Clark-University.jpg\" alt=\"Clark University Reception held at National Geographic Society in Washington, DC.\" class=\"wp-image-78 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/Roger-Kasperson-Geography-Clark-University.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/marsh-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/Roger-Kasperson-Geography-Clark-University-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jeanne X. 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