Roger Kasperson (March 29, 1938[1][2] – April 10, 2021) was an American risk analyst, a distinguished academic and professor at Clark University[3][4] and was one of the proponents of risk perception studies with his work on The Social Amplification/Attentuation of Risk Framework (SARF).
[5][6] He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Honored by the Association of American Geographers for his research on hazards,[7] 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[8] and was given the 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award of the SRA.
[9] He was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences[10] and served as executive director for the Stockholm Environment Institute 2000–2004.
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