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| Lee Clarke, PhD
Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University The Problem of Panic in Disaster Response [Transcript • Slides] |
Speaker Biography Lee Clarke teaches sociology at Rutgers University. His early work concerned how decision makers choose among risks in very uncertain environments. Publications include: Acceptable Risk? Making Decisions in a Toxic Environment, University of California Press, Organizations, Uncertainties, and Risk. Edited by James F. Short, Jr. and Lee Clarke, Boulder: Westview Press, Explaining Choices Among Technological Risks, Social Problems; Oil Spill Fantasies, Atlantic Monthly, Sociological and Economic Theories of Markets and Nonprofits, American Journal of Sociology, "The Disqualification Heuristic: When Do Organizations Misperceive Risk?" Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Prosaic Organizational Failure, American Behavioral Scientist. Clarke's most recent book is Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster, University of Chicago Press. He has written, and frequently lectures about, the Y2K problem, panic, civil defense, evacuation, community response to disaster, organizational failure, the World Trade Center disaster, and is currently writing a book about the idea of worst cases. Clarke is also editing a book on the World Trade Center collapses as disasters. He has also worked with the U.S. Department of Energy in fashioning a research agenda for problems of long term stewardship of contaminated properties. [return to top] |
