Biography
Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz is Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change and a Research Scientist at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He previously served as the Education Coordinator at the Aspen Global Change Institute and is currently a principal investigator in the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University. His research focuses on environmental risk perception, decision-making and behavior, the human dimensions of global environmental change, and sustainability science. He has conducted several national surveys and published on the roles of affect, imagery, values and worldviews in American climate change risk perceptions, policy preferences and behavior, interpretive communities of risk, the influence of popular representations of risk in society, and global sustainability values, attitudes and behaviors.

CRED Projects
» New York City Global Warming Survey

» The Future is Now: Climate Change Detection and Behavior in Regions Experiencing Significant Climate Change

» Climate Change, Vicarious Experience and the Social Amplification of Risk

» Hurricanes Warnings: Creation, Dissemination and Interpretation of the Cone of Probability

Related Links
» Q&A: Up Close with CRED Researcher Tony Leiserowitz