Essays

August 6th, 2006 by johnadams

Date	Title	Online	Download
2008	Does he who pays the piper call the tune? The tobacco industry and me: a confession
2008	Making God laugh (again): a risk management tutorial
2007	Dangerous trees? Arboricultural Journal 2007, Vol. 30, pp. 95-103
2007	Draft for WHO Workshop - “the cost of inaction: economic valuation in environment and health” Rome, 13-14 December 2007.
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”)
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)
2006	Britain’s seatbelt law should be repealed Article accepted for publication in March 2007 by the Royal Statistical Society journal Significance.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.
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
2006	Dangerous Trees? Paper for conference on “The Future of Tree Risk Management” London, 15 September 2006.	Blog
2006	Cross-Thinking About Sustainability: Hypermobility - A Challenge To Governance A public lecture, Amsterdam 11 May 2006 PowerPoint version
2006	Risk Management: Making God Laugh Published in the inaugural edition of Financial World, February 2006
2006	Risk Management: Cutting the CRAP DRAFT article for Institute of Risk Managment - comments solicited
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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
2002	Taking Account of Societal Concerns About Risk: Framing the Problem Research Report 035 (with Michael Thompson) Health and Safety Executive		[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
2001	Hypermobility: Too Much of a Good Thing Royal Society for the Arts Lecture 21 November
2000	Concorde Crash In Press?
1999	Risk-Benefit Analysis: Who Wants It? Who Needs It? Paper for Cost-Benefit Analysis Conference Yale University, 8-10 October
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
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
1999	The Social Implications of Hypermobility Report for OECD Project on Environmentally Sustainable Transport, Paris		[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)
	Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel Conference paper - full version of chapter published above
1999	The Paddington Rail Crash: Keeping Things in Perspective The Times
1999	The Anti-Car Imperative Traffic Engineering and Control
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
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
1996	Can Technology Save Us? World Transport Policy and Practice, 2/3 [1996] 4–17		[WTPP]
1994	The Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Debates Report commissioned by Sir Crispin Tickell for British Government Panel on Sustainable Development
1993	Vogon Economics and the Hyperspatial Bypass New Scientist
1991	On being economical with the environment Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters (1991) 1. 161-163
1991	Prudence and the gambler Shell World, February
1989	London’s Green Spaces: What are They Worth? Report for London Wildlife Trust and Friends of the Earth, September 1989
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
1987	Smeed’s Law: Some Further Thoughts Traffic Engineering and Control, February
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
	Critique of this Occasional Paper by J E Isles for the Department of Transport
1971	London’s Third Airport: From TLA to Airstrip One The Geographical Journal, Vol. 137, No. 4 (Dec., 1971), pp. 468-493
1970	Westminster: The Fourth London Airport? Area, Institute of British Geographers, No.2

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