Implementing the Precautionary Principle

Edited by Elizabeth Fisher, Judith Jones and René von Schomberg

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Abstract: This challenging book takes a broad and thought-provoking look at the precautionary principle and its implementation, or potential implementation, in a number of fields. In particular, it explores the challenges faced by public decision-making processes when applying the precautionary principle, including its role in risk management and risk assessment. Frameworks for improved decision-making are considered, followed by a detailed analysis of prospective applications of the precautionary principle in a number of emerging fields including: nanotechnology, climate change, natural resource management and public health policy. The analysis is both coherent and interdisciplinary, employing perspectives from law, the social sciences and public policy with a view to improving both the legitimacy and effectiveness of public policy at national and international levels.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781845427023
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Perspectives and Prospects

Elizabeth Fisher, Judith Jones and René von Schomberg

Ch 2 The Precautionary Principle and its Normative Challenges

René von Schomberg

Ch 3 The Role of Science and Precaution in Environmental and Public Health Policy

Joel Tickner and David Kriebel

Ch 4 The Precautionary Principle and Catastrophism on Tenterhooks: Lessons from Constitutional Reform in France

Olivier Godard

Ch 5 Precautionary Policy Assessment for Sustainability

Stephen Dovers

Ch 6 The Precautionary Principle and Administrative Constitutionalism: The Development of Frameworks for Applying the Precautionary Principle

Elizabeth Fisher and Ronnie Harding

Ch 7 The Burden and Standard of Proof in Environmental Regulation: The Precautionary Principle in an Australian Administrative Context

Judith Jones and Simon Bronitt

Ch 8 Tr(e)ading Cautiously: Precaution in WTO Decision Making

Jan McDonald

Ch 9 The Threshold Test of the Precautionary Principle in Australian Courts and Tribunals: Lessons for Judicial Review

Warwick Gullett

Ch 10 Precautionary Only in Name? Tensions between Precaution and Risk Assessment in the Australian GMO Regulatory Framework

Jacqueline Peel

Ch 11 A Long and Winding Road? Precaution from Principle to Practice in Biodiversity Conservation

Rosie Cooney

Ch 12 Climate Change and the Precautionary Principle

Jeroen van der Sluijs and Wim Turkenburg

Ch 13 The Tension between Fiction and Precaution in Nanotechnology

Arie Rip

Ch 14 A Framework for the Precautionary Governance of Food Safety: Integrating Science and Participation in the Social Appraisal of Risk

Andy Stirling, Ortwin Renn and Patrick van Zwanenburg

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