Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: October 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780750646833
Subjects: Central government policies; Civil service & public sector; Pollution & threats to the environment; Public Policy - General; Government policy; Industrial Safety; Public Policy; Technology; Environmental Studies; Science/Mathematics; Health risk assessment; Economics - General; Environmental Science; Business & Economics / Insurance / Risk Management; Business & Economics-Economics - General; Environmental policy; Political Science-Public Policy - General; Science / Environmental Science; Political Science; Industrial Health & Safety; Decision making; Environmental health; Environmental risk assessment
First sentence: Precaution has long been a basis for taking action to prevent harm; and at the level of the individual there are clearly merits in this: it is not advisable, for example, to build a house on the edge of a volcano that is expected imminently to erupt.