Precaution, environmental science, and preventive public policy
By: edited by Joel A. Tickner
Contributors: Tickner, Joel A
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Environmental policy -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The role of environmental science in precautionary decision making / Joel A. Tickner; title: Elements of the precautionary principle / Romeo F. Quijano; title: A cautionary tale / Barry Commoner; title: Ethics, science, and precaution: a view from Norway / Matthias Kaiser; title: Science, human rights, and the precautionary principle in Honduras / Juan Almendares; title: Fisheries and the precautionary principle / Boyce Thorne-Miller; title: Risk, uncertainties, and precautions in chemical legislation / Finn Bro-Rasmussen; title: Chemicals policy and the precautionary principle: the case of endocrine disruption / Joe Thornton; title: Uncertainty and global climate change: the case of mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease / Alistair Woodward; title: The precautionary principle as a guide to environmental impact analysis: lessons learned from global warming / Donald A. Brown; title: Certainty claimed: science and politics in Canadian GMO regulations / Katherine Barrett and Stuart Lee; title: Uncertainty and biodiversity conservation / Reinmar Seidler and Kamaljit Bawa; title: Late lessons from early warnings: improving science and governance under uncertainty and ignorance / David Gee and Andrew Stirling; title: Biodiversity conservation in developing countries: managing uncertainty in strategies and action plans to support precautionary action / Reginald Victor; title: A living legacy: the precautionary ideal in American law / Sheila Jasanoff; title: The precautionary principle in European community law and science / Theofanis Christoforou; title: Precautionary assessment: a framework for integrating science, uncertainty, and preventive public policy / Joel A. Tickner; title: Science in the service of good: the precautionary principle and positive goals / Mary O'Brien; title: Toward sustainable chemistry / Terry Collins; title: What could precautionary science be? Research for early warnings and a better future / Carl F. Cranor; title: The children of the Yaqui Valley: precautionary science and communities / Elizabeth A. Guillette; title: Science communication and precautionary policy: a marine case study / Cato C. Ten Hallers-Tjabbes; title: Whose scientific method? Scientific methods for a complex world / Richard Levins; title: Precaution, environmental science, and preventative public policy / Joel A. Tickner; title: Scientists and the real world / Lee Ketelsen