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Public Safety and Risk Assessment – Improving Decision Making. by David J. Ball and Laurence Ball-King Abingdon: Earthscan, 2011 204 pp., £21.99, Paperback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Luke Bennett
Luke Bennett*
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Department of the Built Environment, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 138 - 140
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References

1 Ball & Ball-King at p. 161.

2 The rise of this consensus is mapped in Bennett, Luke and Crowe, Lynn, Landowners’ liability? Is perception of the risk of liability for visitors accidents a barrier to countryside access? (Sheffield: Countryside Recreation Network, 2008)Google Scholar and Bennett, Luke, “Judges, child trespassers and occupiers’ liability”, 3(2) International Journal of Law in the Built Environment (2011), pp. 126–145 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Ball & Ball-King at p. 161.

4 Council Directive 89/391/EEC [1989] O.J. L183/1.

5 For illustrative case studies see: Bennett, Luke, “Trees and public liability – who really decides what is reasonably safe?”, 33 Arboricultural Journal (2010), pp. 141–164 CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Bennett, Luke and Gibbeson, Carolyn, “Perceptions of occupiers’ liability risk by estate managers: a case study of memorial safety in English cemeteries.” 2 (1) International Journal of Law in the Built Environment (2010), pp. 76–93 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Ball & Ball-King at p. 116.

7 Margolis, Howard, Dealing with risk – Why the public and the experts disagree on environmental issues, (London: University of Chicago Press, 1996), at pp. 76–77 Google Scholar.

8 For recent policy reviews in the U.K. echoing the authors’ point of view see: Young, Lord, Common Sense Common Safety, (London: Cabinet Office, 2010)Google Scholar, Löftstedt, Ragnar, Reclaiming health and safety for all: An independent review of health and safety legislation Cm 8219, (London: HM Government, 2011)Google Scholar and Department for Work & Pensions, The Government response to the Löftstedt Report, (London: DWP, 2011)Google ScholarPubMed.

9 See Luke Bennett “A pub, a field and some signs – a case study in the pragmatics of proprietorship and legal cognition”, paper presented to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ COBRA 2011 conference, Manchester, UK in September 2011, available on the Internet at <http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3754> (last accessed 28 January 2012).