{"id":246,"date":"2021-05-04T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T20:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/sustainability-social-justice\/idce-honors-roger-kasperson\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:08:49","slug":"idce-honors-roger-kasperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/sustainability-social-justice\/idce-honors-roger-kasperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Roger Kasperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/schools\/idce-mockup\/www-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/315\/2021\/05\/roger-kasperson.jpg\" aria-label=\"Roger Kasperson\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-595 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/schools\/idce-mockup\/www-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/315\/2021\/05\/roger-kasperson.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Kasperson\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Lauded as <a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2021\/04\/19\/longtime-professor-roger-kasperson-has-died\/\" aria-label=\"giant, leading light in risk analysis and communication\">\u2018giant,\u2019 \u2018leading light\u2019 in risk analysis and communication<\/a>, Roger Kasperson, professor emeritus of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/\" aria-label=\"geography department\">geography<\/a>, passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 10, at his home in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>His colleagues in IDCE paid tribute to him in a brief statement:<\/p>\n<p>The Department of International Development, Community &amp; Environment (IDCE) \u2013 and in particular, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/academics\/graduate\/programs\/masters\/environmental-science-and-policy\/\" aria-label=\"Environmental Science &amp; Policy (ES&amp;P) Program\u00a0\">Environmental Science &amp; Policy (ES&amp;P) Program\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our dear friend and esteemed colleague, Emeritus Professor Roger Kasperson of the Graduate School of Geography.\u00a0 Roger was an inspirational academic leader, that rare scholar who not only spoke passionately about the importance of interdisciplinary and integrative work that bridged the social and natural sciences, but made it part of his visionary practice.\u00a0 He was an early supporter of, and advisor to, Clark University\u2019s vanguard Science, Technology, and Society Program, a program that was established by the natural science departments at the beginning of the 1970s.\u00a0 Roger played a major role in the program\u2019s 1980s transition to a full interdisciplinary collaboration of natural and social scientists with its new name ES&amp;P.\u00a0 In the late 1970s, Roger, along with fellow geographer Bob Kates, physicist Chris Hohenemser, and International Development faculty Dick Ford and Barbara Thomas-Slayter, established the interdisciplinary research Center for Technology, Environment, and Development (CENTED<em>).<\/em>\u00a0 Later renamed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/centers\/marsh-institute\/\" aria-label=\"George Perkins Marsh Institute (GPMI)\">George Perkins Marsh Institute (GPMI)<\/a>, it is the largest research organization at Clark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roger was an inspirational academic leader, that rare scholar who not only spoke passionately about the importance of interdisciplinary and integrative work that bridged the social and natural sciences, but made it part of his visionary practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roger thus helped realize teaching and research programs that recognized the intersection of environment, society, policy and technology at a time when environmental awareness among the U.S. public and policy makers was only just beginning.\u00a0 Prof. Kasperson\u2019s contributions to the field of\u00a0risk analysis\u00a0are legion and well known \u2014 he was a pioneer in risk perception studies and co-founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sra.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Society for Risk Analysis\">Society for Risk Analysis<\/a>\u00a0(SRA).\u00a0 A true \u2018son of Clark\u2019, Roger has left an indelible mark on the institution he loved, as a student, faculty member, department chair, Provost, and Director of GPMI.\u00a0 He was also a cherished mentor for junior faculty who shared his vision, and who enjoyed his tireless support.\u00a0 Prof. Downs would especially like to acknowledge Roger\u2019s mentorship and support of the ES&amp;P Program when its future was uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Kasperson never wavered in his enthusiasm for the work we do, and his generosity, creative thinking, and dry wit in promoting a more nuanced, complete, and rich perspective on social and environmental challenges will not be matched.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Roger. Your vision lives on. Rest in Peace.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Edward R. Carr, Director of IDCE<br \/>\nProf. Timothy J. Downs, Coordinator of ES&amp;P Program in IDCE<br \/>\nProf. Rob Goble, Research Professor of IDCE<br \/>\nProf. Halina Brown, Emeritus Professor of IDCE<br \/>\nProf. Sam Ratick, Emeritus Professor of IDCE &amp; Geography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauded as \u2018giant,\u2019 \u2018leading light\u2019 in risk analysis and communication, Roger Kasperson, professor emeritus of\u00a0geography, passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 10, at his home in Washington, D.C. His colleagues in IDCE paid tribute to him in a brief statement: The Department of International Development, Community &amp; Environment (IDCE) \u2013 and in particular, the\u00a0Environmental Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Honoring Roger Kasperson | Sustainability and Social Justice | Clark University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/sustainability-social-justice\/idce-honors-roger-kasperson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Honoring Roger Kasperson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lauded as \u2018giant,\u2019 \u2018leading light\u2019 in risk analysis and communication, Roger Kasperson, professor emeritus of\u00a0geography, passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 10, at his home in Washington, D.C. 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