 | Mani - 2006 - 348 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.... | |
 | Marcello Basili, Maurizio Franzini, Alessandro Vercelli - 2006 - 272 pages
...in regulatory policy. In the Rio Declaration (at the 1992 Earth Summit), for instance, it is stated: 'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing costeffective measures to prevent environmental degradation'... | |
 | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee - 2006 - 561 pages
...environment, the precautionary principle shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation".... | |
 | Cosimo Quarta - 2006 - 284 pages
...environment, thè precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation».... | |
 | Bev France, John K. Gilbert - 2006 - 112 pages
...example, the use of the 'precautionary principle' by both sides of the genetic engineering debate: Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation... | |
 | Ball, David - 2006 - 296 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.... | |
 | Marc Pallemaerts - 2006 - 329 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr, Robert F. Williams - 2012 - 382 pages
...example, the Rio Declaration explicitly urges a "precautionary approach" to scientific uncertainty: "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."64... | |
 | Robert E. Goodin, Charles Tilly - 2006 - 942 pages
...principle. Probably the most cited version of the precautionary principle is the one in the Rio declaration: "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation"... | |
 | Elli Louka - 2006 - 478 pages
...according to their capabilities." According to the precautionary approach, as endorsed in the declaration: Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.... | |
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In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason... 
