Risk

Adams, John

ISBN 10: 1857280687 / ISBN 13: 9781857280685

Verlag: UCL press, 1995

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Risk
Verlag: UCL press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good