Rethinking risk and the precautionary principle /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Morris, Julian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.
Temas:
Health risk assessment.
Environmental risk assessment.
Environmental health > Government policy > Decision making.
Environmental policy > Decision making.
Environmental Pollution > adverse effects
Risk Assessment > standards
Environmental Health > legislation & jurisprudence
Policy Making
Health Status Indicators
Risques pour la santé > Évaluation.
Environnement > Évaluation du risque.
Hygiène du milieu > Politique gouvernementale > Prise de décision.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Prise de décision.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
Environmental health > Government policy > Decision making
Environmental policy > Decision making
Environmental risk assessment
Health risk assessment
Risicoanalyse.
Milieubeleid.
Veiligheid.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Biographies
  • Defining the precautionary principle / Julian Morris
  • Trial and error versus trial without error / Aaron Wildavsky
  • The precautionary principle and our obligations to future generations / Wilfred Beckerman
  • Precaution, GM crops and farmland birds / Tony Gilland
  • Genetically modified fear and the international regulation of biotechnology / Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko
  • Asteroid collisions and precautionary thinking / Charles T. Rubin
  • Child protection and the precautionary principle / Helene Guldberg
  • Plastic panics : European risk regulation in the aftermath of BSE / Bill Durodié
  • The precautionary principle as a force for global political centralization : a case-study of the Kyoto Protocol / Bruce Yandle
  • Applying the precautionary principle in a broader context / Indur M. Goklany
  • A Richter scale for risk? / John Adams
  • Facts versus factions: the use and abuse of subjectivity in scientific research / Robert A.J. Matthews.

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