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Risk

Name: Risk
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781857280685
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Contributors:

John Adams

Publisher:

Routledge

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Science

Book Subcategory:

Sociology, Earth Sciences, Human Geography

Book Topic:

Geography

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Release Date:

1995-02-16

ISBN 13:

9781857280685

Weight:

0.7 lbs

Size:

9.17 x 6.17 x 0.53 inches

Pages:

240

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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.; "Risk" should be of interest to many readers throughout the social sciences and in the world of industry, business, engineering, finance and public administration, since it deals with a fundamental part of human behaviour that has enormous financial and economic implications.

About the Author

John Adams is an Emeritus Professor in the Geography Department at University College London, and theorist on risk compensation.

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