Precautionary politics : principle and practice in confronting environmental risk
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Kerry H Whiteside
- ناشر : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2006
- شابک / ISBN : 9780262232555
Description
1 Precaution at Work: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology 1 2 Debating Precaution 29 3 Comparing Precaution in the United States and Europe 61 4 Precautionary Theory: Science, Uncertainty, and Political Authority 89 5 Precaution and Democratic Deliberation 117 Conclusion: Precaution and Environmental Social Learning 145
A study of the precautionary principle--its meaning, its rationale, its policy implications, and the controversies provoked by its use in environmental regulation.
