Chapter 01 Risk: An Introduction; Chapter 02 Risk and the Royal Society; Chapter 03 Patterns in Uncertainty; Chapter 04 Error, Chance and Culture; Chapter 05 Measuring Risk; Chapter 06 Monetizing Risk; Chapter 07 Road Safety 1: Seat Belts; Chapter 08 Road Safety 2: More Filtering; Chapter 09 A Large Risk: The Greenhouse Effect; Chapter 10 The Risk Society; Chapter 11 Can We Manage Risk Better?;
John Adams is an Emeritus Professor in the Geography Department at University College London, and theorist on risk compensation.
"Extremely counterintuitive...stimulating and rewarding."
Nature
"This book is to make one pause and take stock. He (the author) has
a wonderfully irreverant style, dissecting phony argument and
phoney statistics with an enviable ease, humour and
self-deprecation." Transactions of the IBG
"Having read it, none of us should ever again look at transport
issues in the same way...this is why his (the author's) book
deserves to be read, not just by geographers but by the whole
community of transport planners and policy makers." Journal of
Transport Geography
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