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Description for Risk
Paperback. This work aims to bring the multifarious field of risk studies sharply into focus in a readable way for a wide readership throughout the social sciences and beyond. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road is straightened. Cultural theory explains risk-taking behaviour by the operation of cultural filters. It postulates that behaviour is governed by the probable costs and benefits of alternative courses of action which are perceived through filters formed from all the previous incidents and associations in the risk-taker's life.; ... Read more
Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road is straightened. Cultural theory explains risk-taking behaviour by the operation of cultural filters. It postulates that behaviour is governed by the probable costs and benefits of alternative courses of action which are perceived through filters formed from all the previous incidents and associations in the risk-taker's life.; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
UCL press
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857280685
SKU
V9781857280685
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Adams
John Adams is an Emeritus Professor in the Geography Department at University College London, and theorist on risk compensation.
Reviews for Risk
"Extremely counterintuitive...stimulating and rewarding." Nature "This book is to make one pause and take stock. He (the author) has a wonderfully irreverant style, dissecting phony argument and phoney statistics with an enviable ease, humour and self-deprecation." Transactions of the IBG "Having read it, none of us should ever again look at transport issues in the same way...this is ... Read more