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Island Press
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406

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2003, Island Press
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Table of Contents

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

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Washington, DC
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Case studies

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Library of Congress
GE170 .P74 2003, GE170.P74 2002

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Pagination
xix, 406 p. :
Number of pages
406

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OL17073516M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
155963331X, 1559633328
LCCN
2002012499
OCLC/WorldCat
50448104
Library Thing
9046974
Goodreads
3765541
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