George O. Rogers

Coordinator of Ph.D Program in Urban and Regional Science, Professor, Sr. Fellow, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Location : C209 • Phone: (979) 845-7284
grogers@tamu.edu
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Dr. Rogers is Program Coordinator of Ph.D. program in Urban and Regional Science, and a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and a Senior Faculty Fellow of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. He has conducted extensive research on human response to risk and hazards and is currently interested in behavioral aspects of sustainability and the dynamics of risk perception. His current work on impact assessment and sustainability focuses on organizational and human behavior. Previous work in this area addressed issues such as community impact, environmental justice, the conditions of acceptability, social and economic impacts of potentially contentious facilities, and the relationship between development and the environment.

George’s recent publication including “Large-scale Environmental Perception: Investigating the Relationship between Perceived and Objectively Measured Physical Environments,” Environment and Behavior, 2006; “Environmental Equity and Electric Power Generation: Disparate Community Outcomes within Texas?” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2005; “Long-term Impact of development on a Watershed: Early Indicators of Future Problems,” Landscape and Urban Planning, 2005.

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1983; M.A., Sociology, University of Waterloo, 1976; B.S., Sociology, Oregon State University, 1975....[more]