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2009 Risk Management in a Hypermobile World

Paper for OMEGA Seminar, University College London, 11.02.2009

2009 Risk Management: the Economics and Morality of Safety Revisited. Safety-Critical Systems: problems, Process and Practice, Proceedings of the 17th Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Brighton 3-5 February, pp. 23 - 38.
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2009

Bicycle bombs: a further enquiry and a new theory, 16 January

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2008 Deus é Brasileiro? Preface for Risco – the Brazilian translation of Risk. To be published in Brazil in March 2009. PDF
2008 Road Safety: the debate goes on, and on
Full version of a letter for Significance, December 2008
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2008 Does he who pays the piper call the tune? The tobacco industry and me: a confession PDF
2008 Making God laugh (again): a risk management tutorial PDF
2007 Risk management and the limitations of measurement
Published in Statistics, Science and Public Policy XII: Measurement, Risk and Society, proceedings of Conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy: Measurement, Risk and Society, Herstmonceux Castle 18-21 April 2007, A.M. Herzberg editor.

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2007 Dangerous trees? Arboricultural Journal 2007, Vol. 30, pp. 95-103 PDF
2007 Draft for WHO Workshop - “the cost of inaction: economic valuation in environment and health” Rome, 13-14 December 2007. PDF
2007 Never mind the width, feel the quality (Published in abbreviated form in The Times Higher on 24 August 2007, as “Tide of paranoia swells safety fears needlessly”) PDF
2007 Shared Space - would it work in Los Angeles? (Commissioned, but not used - and worse not paid for - by The Los Angeles Times. So published here free of charge on the slightly-smaller-circulation Adams’ Blog) PDF
2006 Britain’s seatbelt law should be repealed Article accepted for publication in March 2007 by the Royal Statistical Society journal Significance. Published in the June issue, 2007, vol. 4, issue 2, pp86-89. PDF
2006 Risk and the impact of psychiatric disorder on the environment Background paper for seminars at Grendon Prison, 17 November, and Cygnet Health Care, 30 November PDF
2006 Dangerous Trees? Paper for conference on “The Future of Tree Risk Management” London, 15 September 2006. Blog PDF
2006 Cross-Thinking About Sustainability: Hypermobility - A Challenge To Governance A public lecture, Amsterdam 11 May 2006 PowerPoint version PDF
2006 Risk Management: Making God Laugh Published in the inaugural edition of Financial World, February 2006 PDF
2006 Risk Management: Cutting the CRAP Published in InfoRM, the Journal of The Institute of Risk Management, March 2006 PDF
2005 CRAP: A Modern Mental Illness Social Affairs Unit SAU
2005 Risk Assessment: Placing Terror Threats in Context Royal United Services Institute: Jane’s Homeland Security and Resiliance Monitor October 2005, Vol 4 No 6
2005 Big Ideas: Risk For New Scientist feature, Great Ideas that Shaped the World 17 September Plus correspondence PDF
2005 7/7: What Kills You Matters - Not Numbers Social Affairs Unit Published in abbreviated form (pp18-19) in The Times Higher, 29 July 2005 SAU
2005 British Medical Journal Launches New Global Health Scare Social Affairs Unit SAU
2005 The Failure of Seat Belt Legislation Chapter 6 of Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World, Marco Verweij and Michael Thompson (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, to be published in 2006 PDF
2005 Urban Streets and the Culture of Risk Aversion Published as final chapter of What are we Scared of? CABE Space, 2005 CABE
2005 “Hypermobility: A Challenge to Governance” In New Modes of Governance: Developing an Integrated Policy Approach to Science, Technology, Risk and the Environment Lyall, C. and Tait, J. (Eds) Ashgate, Aldershot PDF
2005 Risk Management, It’s Not Rocket Science: It’s More Complicated Social Affairs Unit SAU
2004 The Management Standard for Stress: Boosting Britain’s Litigation-Compensation Culture Social Affairs Unit SAU
2004 Drug Prohibition is Not Working: The Case of Bloomsbury, London Social Affairs Unit An abridged version also published in The Times Higher, 12 November 2004 SAU
2004 Darling, Meet the 800 Pound Gorilla! (In which the gorilla is TRAFFIC GROWTH) Local Transport Today, 26 August 2004 (Plus ensuing letters to the editor) PDF
2004 When Bad Luck is Good Tech Central Station TechCentral
2004 Judging Juries Judging (note on citizen’s juries and GM debate) Social Affairs Unit SAU
2004 Science and Terrorism: Challenges to the Quantification of the Risks of Terrorism International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, 31st Session: The Cultural Planetary Emergency: Focus on Terrorism, Errice, Sicily, 7-12 May, A. Zichichi and R Ragaini (eds) World Scientific Publishing
Science and Terrorism: Post-Conference After-Thoughts World Federation of Scientists’ International Seminar on Terrorism Erice 7-12 May PDF
2003 In Defence of Bad Luck Spiked Spiked
2003 “Risk and Morality: Three Framing Devices” Chapter 4, in Risk and Morality, Richard Ericson & Aaron Doyle (editors) University of Toronto Press PDF
2002 Do We Have Enough Injidents? For Europe WONCA 2002, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, 9-13 June, 2002 The British Journal of General Practice (June 2002) PDF
2002 “Risk Compensation Theory Should be Subject to Systematic Reviews of the Scientific Evidence: Debate About Cycle Helmets” Injury Prevention (2002;8:e1-e1) BMJ PDF
2002 Taking Account of Societal Concerns About Risk: Framing the Problem Research Report 035 (with Michael Thompson) Health and Safety Executive PDF [HSE]
2001 Letter from John Adams Put in time capsule on 30th October 2001 - To be opened 30th October 2021 Published in Ahead of Time: Birthday Letters to Mayer Hillman Policy Studies Institute PDF
2001 Hypermobility: Too Much of a Good Thing Royal Society for the Arts Lecture 21 November PDF
2000 Concorde Crash In Press? PDF
1999 Risk-Benefit Analysis: Who Wants It? Who Needs It? Paper for Cost-Benefit Analysis Conference Yale University, 8-10 October PDF
1999 The Perils of Living in a Risk Free World, The Independent, 31 July PDF
1999 Risk, Freedom and Responsibility The Risk of Freedom: Individual Liberty and the Modern World The Institute of United States Studies, University of London Amazon PDF
1999 Cars, Cholera and Cows: The Management of Risk and Uncertainty Policy Analysis No. 335, Cato Institute, Washington Published with new introduction by the Adam Smith Institute (1999) as Risky Business CATO PDF
1999 The Social Implications of Hypermobility Report for OECD Project on Environmentally Sustainable Transport, Paris PDF [OECD]
1999 Transgenic Plants and the Management of Virtual Risks. Methods for Risk Assessment of Transgenic Plants: III Ecological Risks and Prospects of Transgenic Plants, Where Do We Go From Here? (K. Ammann et al eds) PDF
Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel Conference paper - full version of chapter published above PDF
1999 The Paddington Rail Crash: Keeping Things in Perspective The Times PDF
1999 The Anti-Car Imperative Traffic Engineering and Control PDF
1998 A Richter Scale for Risk? Science and Technology Awareness in Europe: New Insights Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, first presented as a paper to British Association, 1997 PDF
1998 “Carmagedon” in Town and Country (Anthony Barnett and Roger Scruton eds) Jonathan Cape, London Amazon
1998 Is Flying Safer than Driving? (Comment on Swiss Air Crash, 2 September) The Times PDF
1996 Can Technology Save Us? World Transport Policy and Practice, 2/3 [1996] 4–17 PDF [WTPP]
1994 The Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Debates Report commissioned by Sir Crispin Tickell for British Government Panel on Sustainable Development PDF
1993 Vogon Economics and the Hyperspatial Bypass New Scientist PDF
1991 On being economical with the environment Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters (1991) 1. 161-163 PDF
1991 Prudence and the gambler Shell World, February PDF
1989 London’s Green Spaces: What are They Worth? Report for London Wildlife Trust and Friends of the Earth, September 1989 PDF
1983 Public Safety Legislation and the Risk Compensation Hypothesis: The example of Motorcycle Helmet Legislation, Environment and Planning C: 1983 vol.1 pages 193-203 PDF
1987 Smeed’s Law: Some Further Thoughts Traffic Engineering and Control, February PDF
1986 Contribution as discussant to paper by Harvey, A.C. and Durbin, J. The effects of seat belt legislation on British road casualties, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 149, 187-227. PDF
1982 The Efficacy of Seat Belt Legislation Society of Automotive Engineers, Transactions, pages 2824-38 This is the published, peer-reviewed edition of a 1981 UCL Occasional Paper PDF
Critique of this Occasional Paper by J E Isles for the Department of Transport PDF
1974 …and how much for your grandmother, Environment and Planning A, volume 6, pages 619 - 626 PDF
1972 Booming discorde, Geographical Magazine, July (with Nigel Haigh) PDF
1971 London’s Third Airport: From TLA to Airstrip One The Geographical Journal, Vol. 137, No. 4 (Dec., 1971), pp. 468-493 PDF
1970 Westminster: The Fourth London Airport? Area, Institute of British Geographers, No.2 PDF

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