 | Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman - 2004 - 197 pages
...instance, in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1998, the Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle avowed, "When an activity raises threats of harm to human...relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof"... | |
 | Rosie Cooney - 2004 - 51 pages
...broader debate on precaution and provides a useful counterpoint. It includes the following definition: "When an activity raises threats of harm to human...relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof... | |
 | Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, Lawrence D. Frank, Richard J. Jackson - 2004 - 338 pages
...Precautionary Principle. As artitulated in the Wingspread Statement of 1998, this principle holds that "when an activity raises threats of harm to human...relationships are not fully established scientifically."" The Precautionary Principle is generally applied to health hazards such as chemital exposures,''''... | |
 | Rachel Stein - 2004 - 287 pages
...in the statement that grew out of the 1998 Wingspread Conference in Racine, Wisconsin, which avows, "When an activity raises threats of harm to human...relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof"... | |
 | Gary Elvin Marchant, Kenneth L. Mossman - 2004 - 95 pages
...considerations. This version of the precautionary principle states, "When an activity raises threats of harms to human health or the environment, precautionary...and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically"38 The European Commission has offered yet a third variation with respect to consideration... | |
 | 2004 - 78 pages
...engagement with risk must be defensive, governed by the precautionary principle (when an activity might harm human health or the environment, precautionary measures...relationships are not fully established scientifically, so that the proponent of an activity bears the burThe "gloomy arithmetic" of water is matched by the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform - 2003 - 248 pages
...separate comments on this draft report, other Mercatus scholars provide additional feedback on this issue. When an activity raises threats of harm to human health...precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause-and-effect relationships are not fully established scientifically :< Variations on this principle... | |
 | 2004 - 36 pages
...energy crisis, and the renewable revolution, (nef, London). 3 The precautionary principle suggests that when an activity raises threats of harm to human health...precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause-and-effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. One of the most important... | |
 | Chernomas, Robert, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Lissa Donner - 2004 - 25 pages
...Integrated Approach to Primary Prevention in Cancer Control 34 The precautionary principle states: When an activity raises threats of harm to human health...precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause-and-effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. 35 See http://www.cancer.ca/ccs/internet/stand... | |
 | Farid Ahmed - 2004 - 317 pages
...exist. A common definition of the precautionary principle is the so-called Wingspread Declaration: "When an activity raises threats of harm to human...precautionary measures should be taken, even if some of the causeand-effect relationships are not established scientifically" (Goklany, 2002). If a new... | |
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When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. 
