The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk AssessmentCATO, 2001 - 119 pages "The precautionary principle - the environmental version of the admonition "first, do no harm" - is now enshrined in numerous international environmental agreements including treaties addressing global warming, biological diversity, and various pollutants. Some environmentalists have invoked this principle to justify policies to control, if not ban, any technology that cannot be proven to cause no harm. In this book, Goklany shows that the current use of the precautionary principle to justify such policies is flawed and could be counterproductive because it ignores the possible calamities those very policies might simultaneously create or prolong."--BOOK JACKET. |
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SILENT SPRING OR SILENT PEOPLE? 13 225 | 13 |
THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS | 29 |
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