Roger Kasperson
Roger Kasperson 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.
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 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.
