The Precautionary Principle
A Critical Appraisal
by Indur M. Goklany
"The precautionary principle - the environmental version of the admonition "first, do no harm" - is now enshrined in numerous international environmental agreements including treaties addressing global warming, biological diversity, and various pollutants. Some environmentalists have invoked this principle to justify policies to control, if not ban, any technology that cannot be proven to cause no harm.
In this book, Goklany shows that the current use of the precautionary principle to justify such policies is flawed and could be counterproductive because it ignores the possible calamities those very policies might simultaneously create or prolong."--BOOK JACKET.
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Precautionary Principle: a Critical Appraisal
2010, Cato Institute
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Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal
2001, Cato Institute
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The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal
October 25, 2001, Cato Institute, CATO Institute, Distributed to the trade by National Book Network]
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