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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Page 3
... importance and authority of ' expert ' knowledge - offer an adequate response to the challenge of reaching decisions on protective mea- sures in conditions of imperfect scientific knowledge . From a practical perspective , a focus on ...
... importance and authority of ' expert ' knowledge - offer an adequate response to the challenge of reaching decisions on protective mea- sures in conditions of imperfect scientific knowledge . From a practical perspective , a focus on ...
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... importance of the precautionary principle for health and environmental decision - making , the book concentrates on the implications of precaution in this area , rather than on the role of the principle in other regulatory fields such ...
... importance of the precautionary principle for health and environmental decision - making , the book concentrates on the implications of precaution in this area , rather than on the role of the principle in other regulatory fields such ...
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... and its endorsement of public participation in achieving sustainable development draws attention to the importance of a range Chapter 2: Precautionary Decision-making in Context The 'institutionalisation' of precaution.
... and its endorsement of public participation in achieving sustainable development draws attention to the importance of a range Chapter 2: Precautionary Decision-making in Context The 'institutionalisation' of precaution.
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... importance of a range of viewpoints for informing decision - making on health and environmental issues . Together these elements make up the ' backdrop ' to contemporary precau- tionary decision - making that informs the broader social ...
... importance of a range of viewpoints for informing decision - making on health and environmental issues . Together these elements make up the ' backdrop ' to contemporary precau- tionary decision - making that informs the broader social ...
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... importance of this document lies in the commitment made by all levels of government in Australia that the precautionary principle ( together with other principles of ESD ) should inform environmental ' policy - making and program ...
... importance of this document lies in the commitment made by all levels of government in Australia that the precautionary principle ( together with other principles of ESD ) should inform environmental ' policy - making and program ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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International Law and the Genetic Resources of the Deep Sea David Kenneth Leary No preview available - 2007 |