John Adams
John Adams is Professor of Geography at University College London. Adams was a member of the original board of directors of Friends of the Earth in the early 1970s and has been a participant in debates about transport planning and the management of environmental risks ever since. He was a consultant to the recently completed OECD project on environmentally sustainable transport and is a member of the editorial boards of Town and Country Planning, Safety Science and Risk Management.
Adams has published widely on planning transport and risk management issues, in both specialist journals and the British national press. He is a frequent contributor to radio and television programmes on these subjects, and co-wrote and presented the BBC2 programme Virtual Risk (Big Ideas, series one, August 1999. His book Risk was described in a Nature review as ‘extremely counterintuitive, stimulating and rewarding’, and in the Economist as 'beguiling'.
Adams is currently working on a project for the Health and Safety Executive on the assessment of societal concerns about risk.
Adams has published widely on planning transport and risk management issues, in both specialist journals and the British national press. He is a frequent contributor to radio and television programmes on these subjects, and co-wrote and presented the BBC2 programme Virtual Risk (Big Ideas, series one, August 1999. His book Risk was described in a Nature review as ‘extremely counterintuitive, stimulating and rewarding’, and in the Economist as 'beguiling'.
Adams is currently working on a project for the Health and Safety Executive on the assessment of societal concerns about risk.
