John Adams (geographer)

John Adams (geographer)

Professor John Adams of University College London, is a professor of geography and leading theorist on risk compensation and an environmentalist. His book "Risk" is an analysis of how humans assess and respond to perceived risks.

Adams spoke at the "Shared Space" conference held in Ipswich, UK in June, 2005, where in his talk titled "Risk Compensation versus the obedient automaton theory of human behaviour" he discussed how understanding risk compensation was essential to the understanding of why shared space principles work for the design of public spaces such as road layouts in townscite web
year = 2005
url = http://www.shared-space.org/files/12965/ReportSharedSIConference.pdf
title = Conference Tuesday, June 7
format = PDF
publisher = Shared Space
accessdate = 2006-04-26] .

John Adams is among the leading public intellectuals in the UK, known for his avant-garde but ultimately accepted opinions and analyses of an extraordinary range of phenomena linked under the general rubric of risk.

He has also coined the term and written extensively on the phenomenon of hypermobility.

Bibliography

* "Risk", UCL Press, 1995. ISBN 1-85728-068-7.

References

External links

* [http://www.john-adams.co.uk John Adams' website]
* [http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~jadams/index.htm John Adams' page on the UCL website]
* [http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/authors.php?author=johna Articles on Risk by John Adams for the Social Affairs Unit]


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