Books By Adam Burgess - Author

Adam Burgess is Professor of Risk Research in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. His principal interests are in comparative national and historical perspectives on risk, sociological studies of ‘risk behaviours’ and anxieties, and the social and political construction of particular risk controversies. He has also been a research fellow on the systemic risk programme at Princeton University and is research associate at the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics. He has published numerous articles and books on risk-related topics, including Cellular Phones, Public Fears and a Culture of Precaution (Cambridge UP 2004). He is chair and vice-chair of the risk and uncertainty streams of the European Sociological Association and International Sociological Association and co-edits the European Journal of Risk Regulation. Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor of Law at HEC Paris and Global Clinical Professor at New York