"Jupiter's Travels" - Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world. It is the book that inspired Ewan McGregor's "Long Way Round". In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him aroun[...]

Simon rode a motorcycle around the world in the seventies, when such a thing was unheard of. In four years he covered, miles through countries, living with peasants and presidents, in prisons and palaces, through wars and revolutions. What distinguishes this book is that Simon was already an accompl[...]

The purpose of risk assessment is to support science-based decisions about how to solve complex societal problems. The problems we face in the twenty-first century have many social, political, and technical complexities. Environmental risk assessment in particular is of increasing importance as a me[...]

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