Lee Clarke
Lee Clarke is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. He is the author of Mission Improbable and Worst Cases, both from the University of Chicago Press. His current research looks at how scientists negotiate the boundaries of science and politics, focusing on scientists whose work foretold, in various ways, the great harm that Katrina would bring to New Orleans.
Clarke is the recipient of the Rutgers Graduate School Award for Excellence in Teaching and Graduate Research, the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools' 1998 Graduate Mentoring Award, the Fred Buttel Distinguished Scholarship Award and the Anschutz Distinguished Scholar at Princeton University.
Related Resources from Lee Clarke
Lee Clarke's blog on the BP Oil Spill
Oil-Spill Fantasies
Atlantic Monthly, November 1990
Related Resources by Lee Clarke from the Natural Hazards Library
Organizing Foresight and the Exxon Oil Spill
Quick Response Research Report 32, Natural Hazards Center, 1989
Worst-Case Thinking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Natural Hazards Observer, Volume 29, Number 3, 2005