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| DATE | TITLE |
|---|---|
| 2016 |
Driverless cars and the sacred cow problem, abridged version published in City Metic, 5 September 2016 |
| 2016 |
Risk and Culture, published (2016) as chapter 7 in Routledge Handbook of Risk Studies |
| 2015 |
Cycling and Safety: change must take root in people’s minds, World Transport: Policy and Practice, vol 21, 3 October. This is the English version of a paper published (pages 49 – 65) in JORNADAS EN MADRID, CIUDADES EN BICICLETA, PERSONA CIUDAD BIENESTAR |
| 2015 |
Self driving cars and the child-ball problem: why autonomous vehicles are not the answer, London Essays, 6 July. |
| 2014 | Risk: mathematical and otherwise Essay commissioned for a special issue (June 2015) of the Mathematics Enthusiast entitled “Risk: mathematical or otherwise”. |
| 2014 | A Large Risk: the greenhouse effect: a near final draft of what became Chapter 9 of my book Risk published in 1995. |
| 2013 | Risk Compensation in Cities at Risk, chapter 3 in Cities at Risk: living with perils in the 21st century, Springer. Near final draft of my chapter |
| 2012 | Is ISO 31000 fit for purpose? |
| 2011 | Not 100% sure? The public understanding of risk Proof of chapter 6 of Successful Science Communication, Bennett and Jennings eds. |
| 2010 | Managing transport risks: what works? Draft of essay for Handbook of Risk Theory |
| 2010 | The pursuit of resilience Illustrated version of an essay commissioned by Egon Zehnder for a special issue of The Focus on resilience (2010, Vol. XIV/1) |
| 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. |
| 2009 | Bicycle bombs: a further enquiry and a new theory 16 January |
| 2008 | Deus é Brasileiro? Preface for Risco the Brazilian translation of Risk To be published in Brazil in March 2009 |
| 2008 | Road Safety: the debate goes on, and on Full version of a letter for Significance, December 2008 |
| 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 | 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. |
| 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 | Britains 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. Subsequently responded to by Allsop et al in Seat belt laws: why we should keep them, Significance June 2008. |
| 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 View related 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 Published in InfoRM, the Journal of The Institute of Risk Management, March 2006 |
| 2005 | CRAP: A Modern Mental Illness Social Affairs Unit View on SAU website |
| 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 View on SAU website |
| 2005 | British Medical Journal Launches New Global Health Scare Social Affairs Unit View on SAU website |
| 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 View on CABE website |
| 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, Its Not Rocket Science: It’s More Complicated Social Affairs Unit View on SAU website |
| 2004 | The Management Standard for Stress: Boosting Britain’s Litigation-Compensation Culture Social Affairs Unit View on SAU website |
| 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 |
| 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 View on TechCentral website |
| 2004 | Judging Juries Judging (note on citizens juries and GM debate) Social Affairs Unit View on SAU website |
| 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 View on Spiked Website – https://john-adams.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/in-defense-of-bad-luck.pdf |
| 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) View on BMJ website |
| 2002 | Taking Account of Societal Concerns About Risk: Framing the Problem Research Report 035 (with Michael Thompson) Health and Safety Executive View on HSE website (PDF) |
| 2001 | Risk compensation and helmet wearing, Injury Prevention, June 2001. |
| 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 | The Perils of Living in a Risk Free World The Independent, 31 July |
| 1999 | Risk, Freedom and Responsibility The Risk of Freedom: Individual Liberty and the Modern World The Institute of United States Studies, University of London Buy on 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 View on CATO website |
| 2000 | The Social Implications of Hypermobility Report for OECD Project on Environmentally Sustainable Transport, Paris, start p.95 View on OECD website (PDF) |
| 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 |
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| 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 Buy on 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] View on WTPP website (PDF) |
| 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 | Londons Green Spaces: What are They Worth? Report for London Wildlife Trust and Friends of the Earth, September 1989 |
| 1988 | Evaluating the effectiveness of road safety measures, Traffic Engineering and Control, June |
| 1987 | Smeed’s Law: Some Further Thoughts Traffic Engineering and Control, February |
| 1986 | Seat Belt Legislation in Britain Article commissioned for, but not published by, the WHO International Digest of Health Legislation. For background see – https://john-adams.co.uk/2011/02/08/811/ |
| 1986 | The effects of seat belt legislation on British road casualties Contribution as discussant to paper by Harvey, A.C. and Durbin, J. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 149, 187-227. |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 1974 | …and how much for your grandmother Environment and Planning A, volume 6, pages 619 – 626 |
| 1972 | Booming discorde Geographical Magazine, July (with Nigel Haigh) |
| 1972 | Life in a global village |
| 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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