Essays

August 6th, 2006 by johnadams

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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 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2006 Britain’s seatbelt law should be repealed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
DRAFT article for Institute of Risk Managment - comments solicited		 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 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

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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
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
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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