The Precautionary Principle in Practice: Environmental Decision-making and Scientific UncertaintyFederation Press, 2005 - 244 pages The precautionary principle puts forward the 'commonsense' notion that decision-makers should be cautious when assessing potential health or environmental harms in the absence of the full scientific facts. It is now a well-established tenet of environmental law. The debate has turned to its legal implementation, especially its application 'in practice'. The Precautionary Principle in Practice - Environmental decision-making and scientific uncertainty focuses on these issues. It considers how decision-makers can assess threats to health or the environment when the available scientific evidence is sparse and discusses the types of 'uncertainties' that bring the precautionary principle into play.Peel uses detailed case studies which examine the implementation of the precautionary principle in actual decision-making scenarios: fisheries management; risk assessment for genetically modified organisms; and environmental impact assessment for development applications. She demonstrates an approach that takes account of variable uncertainty issues and can be adapted to different circumstances to ensure a comprehensive assessment of the potential threats to health or the environment. Jackie Peel has a background in both science and law. She took a BSC/LLB with 1st class honours at the University of Queensland and holds an LLM from New York University where she studied in 1999-2000 as a Fulbright Scholar. She is now is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. |
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... challenges associated with this . Mandy Elliott , Department of Sustainability & Environment , Victoria There are few issues in international law today that are more important - or controversial - than the status and effect of the ...
... challenges associated with this . Mandy Elliott , Department of Sustainability & Environment , Victoria There are few issues in international law today that are more important - or controversial - than the status and effect of the ...
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... Challenges to AFMA's ' precautionary measures ' Exercising precaution in fisheries management Conclusion 28558 79 80 95 99 Chapter 6 : Mobile Phone Towers and the Application of Precaution 106 Mobile phone towers and RFR 107 Planning ...
... Challenges to AFMA's ' precautionary measures ' Exercising precaution in fisheries management Conclusion 28558 79 80 95 99 Chapter 6 : Mobile Phone Towers and the Application of Precaution 106 Mobile phone towers and RFR 107 Planning ...
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... Challenges for implementation 218 Precaution as process 220 Dimensions of a precautionary process 222 Putting precautionary processes into practice 227 References 232 Index 240 Appendices The Appendices are published on our website ...
... Challenges for implementation 218 Precaution as process 220 Dimensions of a precautionary process 222 Putting precautionary processes into practice 227 References 232 Index 240 Appendices The Appendices are published on our website ...
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... challenges . These centre on the implications of precaution for ' science - based ' decision - making processes , a topic which has received minimal treatment in the existing legal literature . This is especially so in Australia , where ...
... challenges . These centre on the implications of precaution for ' science - based ' decision - making processes , a topic which has received minimal treatment in the existing legal literature . This is especially so in Australia , where ...
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... challenges health and environmental decision - makers face when carrying out their functions in conditions of scientific uncertainty . The book includes a consideration of the factors which make up the ' backdrop ' for precautionary ...
... challenges health and environmental decision - makers face when carrying out their functions in conditions of scientific uncertainty . The book includes a consideration of the factors which make up the ' backdrop ' for precautionary ...
Contents
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Uncertainty at the limits of science | 42 |
Conclusion | 54 |
Assessing Threats of Damage in Conditions of Uncertainty | 63 |
Precautionary Decisionmaking Processes | 137 |
Precaution in decisionmaking frameworks | 149 |
Conclusion | 158 |
Implementing Precaution in GMO Risk Assessment | 166 |
A precautionary evaluation of the GTA | 173 |
Conclusion | 181 |
Caution and Precaution in EIA for Development | 189 |
Implementation approaches for EIA | 203 |
Evaluating the seriousness of threats | 70 |
Taking a Precautionary Approach in Fisheries Management | 79 |
Challenges to AFMAs precautionary measures | 85 |
Exercising precaution in fisheries management | 95 |
Planning disputes over mobile phone towers | 112 |
Precaution in siting mobile phone towers | 121 |
Conclusion | 210 |
An Approach for Practice Precaution as Process | 218 |
Putting precautionary processes into practice | 227 |
Index | 240 |
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References to this book
International Law and the Genetic Resources of the Deep Sea David Kenneth Leary No preview available - 2007 |