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| 2009 | Risk Management in a Hypermobile World
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| 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. | |
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| 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 | |
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| 2008 | Making God laugh (again): a risk management tutorial | |
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| 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 | |
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| 2007 | Draft for WHO Workshop - “the cost of inaction: economic valuation in environment and health” Rome, 13-14 December 2007. | |
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| 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”) | |
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| 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) | |
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| 2006 | Britain’s seatbelt law should be repealed Article accepted for publication in March 2007 by the Royal Statistical Society journal Significance.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. | |
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| 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 | |
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| 2006 | Dangerous Trees? Paper for conference on “The Future of Tree Risk Management” London, 15 September 2006. | Blog | |
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| 2006 | Cross-Thinking About Sustainability: Hypermobility - A Challenge To Governance A public lecture, Amsterdam 11 May 2006 PowerPoint version | |
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| 2006 | Risk Management: Making God Laugh Published in the inaugural edition of Financial World, February 2006 | |
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| 2006 | Risk Management: Cutting the CRAP Published in InfoRM, the Journal of The Institute of Risk Management, March 2006 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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 | |
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| 2002 | Taking Account of Societal Concerns About Risk: Framing the Problem Research Report 035 (with Michael Thompson) Health and Safety Executive | [HSE] |
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| 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 | |
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| 2001 | Hypermobility: Too Much of a Good Thing Royal Society for the Arts Lecture 21 November | |
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| 2000 | Concorde Crash In Press? | |
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| 1999 | Risk-Benefit Analysis: Who Wants It? Who Needs It? Paper for Cost-Benefit Analysis Conference Yale University, 8-10 October | |
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| 1999 | The Perils of Living in a Risk Free World, The Independent, 31 July | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | [OECD] |
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| 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) | |
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| Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel Conference paper - full version of chapter published above | |
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| 1999 | The Paddington Rail Crash: Keeping Things in Perspective The Times | |
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| 1999 | The Anti-Car Imperative Traffic Engineering and Control | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 1996 | Can Technology Save Us? World Transport Policy and Practice, 2/3 [1996] 4–17 | [WTPP] |
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| 1994 | The Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Debates Report commissioned by Sir Crispin Tickell for British Government Panel on Sustainable Development | |
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| 1993 | Vogon Economics and the Hyperspatial Bypass New Scientist | |
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| 1991 | On being economical with the environment Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters (1991) 1. 161-163 | |
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| 1991 | Prudence and the gambler Shell World, February | |
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| 1989 | London’s Green Spaces: What are They Worth? Report for London Wildlife Trust and Friends of the Earth, September 1989 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 1987 | Smeed’s Law: Some Further Thoughts Traffic Engineering and Control, February | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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 | |
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| Critique of this Occasional Paper by J E Isles for the Department of Transport | |
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| 1974 | …and how much for your grandmother, Environment and Planning A, volume 6, pages 619 - 626 | |
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| 1972 | Booming discorde, Geographical Magazine, July (with Nigel Haigh) | |
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| 1971 | London’s Third Airport: From TLA to Airstrip One The Geographical Journal, Vol. 137, No. 4 (Dec., 1971), pp. 468-493 | |
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| 1970 | Westminster: The Fourth London Airport? Area, Institute of British Geographers, No.2 | |
