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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road is straightened. Cultural theory explains risk-taking... Read more
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?;
Biography
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
