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Article: The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment. (Books of Note).
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- Environment
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- July 1, 2002
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Indur M. Goklany; Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., 2001; 124 pp., $17.95 cloth (ISBN 1-930865-16-3)
Comparison of environmental, health, and socioeconomic implications of alternative policy options should, in theory, be central to decisionmaking on environmental risks. In practice, however, such decisions are political and often reflect lobbying successes of dominant stakeholder groups. The precautionary principle is, according to its critics, often misused to focus deliberations on uncertain risks of new technologies instead of to consider potential benefits.
In The Precautionary Principle, Indur M. Goklany proposes a framework of six hierarchical ...