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Sep 14
A hard shoulder to cry on
On 12 September 2006 the Department for Transport initiated an experiment on the M42 in which, in periods of congestion, drivers would be allowed to use the hard shoulder. Media coverage of the experiment focused on safety problems: in the event of breakdowns or accidents emergency services would take longer to get to the scene. …
Sep 11
Dangerous Trees?
Paper for conference on The Future of Tree Risk Management London, 15 September 2006. The average annual number of tree-related deaths between 1998 and 2003 (the most recent statistics available) was six, or one in 10 million averaged over the national population. The Health and Safety Executive considers that an individual risk of death of …
Sep 02
Three framing devices for managing risk
Summary of presentation for CRIMS (Canadian Risk and Insurance Management Society) conference, Calgary, 17-20 September 2006. It is important to be clear about the type of risk you are dealing with. Directly perceptible risks are dealt with instinctively and intuitively. Virtual risks are culturally constructed when the science is inconclusive people are liberated to argue …
Aug 31
Planet saved?
Review for The Times Higher published 1 September 2006 Capitalism as if the World Matters By Jonathan Porritt, Earthscan Publications Ltd, 336pp, Hardcover £18.99 ISBN: 1844071928 Published 1 November 2005 Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble By Lester Brown, W W Norton & Co Ltd, 352pp, Paperback £10.99 …
Presentations
All downloads are in PDF format, unless otherwise stated. 2017 The Pathway to Driverless Cars and the Sacred Cow Problem: some behavioural challenges to think about. Presentation for National Infrastructure Commission Roundtable on connected and autonomous vehicles, London, 27 April. 2016 Driverless cars and the sacred cow problem. Cultural Theory of Risk and Regulatory Governance Workshop, Tilburg, …
Letters & Reviews
All downloads are in PDF format, unless otherwise stated. DATE TITLE 2007 John Stuart Mill and the cream-bun theory of liberty Letter published in The Guardian, 11 August. 2005 In Favour of Speed Cameras But Letter to editor of Local Transport Today, 6 Janurary 2003 How do we rate our chances? Reveiw of Reckoning with …
About
Emeritus Professor of Geography at University College London. I was a member of the original Board of Directors of Friends of the Earth in the early 1970s and have been involved in debates about environmental issues ever since. I am intrigued by the persistence of attitudes to risks. For the past 30 years, the same …
Essays
All downloads are in PDF format, unless otherwise stated. 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 …
Books
DATE TITLE BUY / DOWNLOAD 2013 Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century (Joffe, Rossetto and Adams eds.) – £90.00!!! You can also download a draft of my chapter – Risk Compensation Buy on Amazon 1995 Risk UCL Press Download book as PDF (1.5MB) View reviews Up dated preface – March 2009 [PDF]. …
Aug 06
Death on the roads – Article lacks logic
Letter to the editor of the British Medical Journal, 26 June, 2006, commenting on Unsafe driving behaviour and four wheel drive vehicles: observational study, by Lesley Walker, Jonathan Williams and Konrad Jamrozik. EDITOR Walker et al show convincingly that drivers and other occupants of heavy four wheel drive vehicles are safer in crashes than those …