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Rethinking risk and the precautionary principle / edited by Julian Morris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780080516233
  • 0080516238
  • 1283587440
  • 9781283587440
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking risk and the precautionary principle.DDC classification:
  • 362.1 21
LOC classification:
  • RA566.27 .R47 2000eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Biographies -- Defining the precautionary principle / Julian Morris -- Trial and error versus trial without error / Aaron Wildavsky -- The precautionary principle and our obligations to future generations / Wilfred Beckerman -- Precaution, GM crops and farmland birds / Tony Gilland -- Genetically modified fear and the international regulation of biotechnology / Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko -- Asteroid collisions and precautionary thinking / Charles T. Rubin -- Child protection and the precautionary principle / Helene Guldberg -- Plastic panics : European risk regulation in the aftermath of BSE / Bill Durodié -- The precautionary principle as a force for global political centralization : a case-study of the Kyoto Protocol / Bruce Yandle -- Applying the precautionary principle in a broader context / Indur M. Goklany -- A Richter scale for risk? / John Adams -- Facts versus factions: the use and abuse of subjectivity in scientific research / Robert A.J. Matthews.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Biographies -- Defining the precautionary principle / Julian Morris -- Trial and error versus trial without error / Aaron Wildavsky -- The precautionary principle and our obligations to future generations / Wilfred Beckerman -- Precaution, GM crops and farmland birds / Tony Gilland -- Genetically modified fear and the international regulation of biotechnology / Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko -- Asteroid collisions and precautionary thinking / Charles T. Rubin -- Child protection and the precautionary principle / Helene Guldberg -- Plastic panics : European risk regulation in the aftermath of BSE / Bill Durodié -- The precautionary principle as a force for global political centralization : a case-study of the Kyoto Protocol / Bruce Yandle -- Applying the precautionary principle in a broader context / Indur M. Goklany -- A Richter scale for risk? / John Adams -- Facts versus factions: the use and abuse of subjectivity in scientific research / Robert A.J. Matthews.

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