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Article: Defining precaution.(REPORT ON REPORTS)
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- Environment
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Techonology Report: The Precautionary Principle
The precautionary principle is frequently invoked as a basic principle of risk management and an essential guide to decisions on issues as varied as climate change, biodiversity loss, and food safety. The principle has many critics, on the other hand, who regard it as a vaguely worded doctrine sometimes used as a screen for shoddy science, trade protectionism, or anti-technology sentiment. This difference of opinion underlies many of the environmental controversies between the United States and Europe. Given that the principle itself exists in a ...