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ISBN: 9782336269238
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Languages : en
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Principe de Precaution Une Clef Pour Le
Author: The Reality of Precaution
Author: Jonathan B. WienerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136522565
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The 'Precautionary Principle' has sparked the central controversy over European and U.S. risk regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond precaution as an abstract principle and test its reality in practice. This groundbreaking resource combines detailed case studies of a wide array of risks to health, safety, environment and security; a broad quantitative analysis; and cross-cutting chapters on politics, law, and perceptions. The authors rebut the rhetoric of conflicting European and American approaches to risk, and show that the reality has been the selective application of precaution to particular risks on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as a constructive exchange of policy ideas toward 'better regulation.' The book offers a new view of precaution, regulatory reform, comparative analysis, and transatlantic relations.
Principe de précaution (Le)
Author: Philippe KourilskyPublisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 9782738107688
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 408
Book Description
Le principe de précaution est de plus en plus invoqué dans les affaires touchant à l'environnement, à l'alimentation, à la santé. Que recouvre-t-il dans la pratique? Quels sont ses contours juridiques? Quelles sont les implications judiciaires de son utilisation? Dans ce rapport commandé par le Premier ministre, Philippe Kourilsky et Geneviéve Viney explorent le contenu du principe de précaution, tout en soulignant que, selon l'usage qui en sera fait, il peut aboutir au meilleur comme au pire. Philippe Kourilsky est professeur au Collége de France, directeur général de l'Institut Pasteur et membre de l'Académie des sciences. Geneviéve Viney est professeur de droit civil et dirige le centre de recherche en droit privé à l'université Paris-I.
Implementing the Precautionary Principle
Author: Elizabeth Charlotte FisherPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1847201679
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This challenging book takes a broad and thought-provoking look at the precautionary principle and its implementation, or potential implementation, in a number of fields. In particular, the essays within the book explore the challenges faced by public decision-making processes when applying the precautionary principle, including its role in risk management and risk assessment. Frameworks for improved decision making are considered, followed by a detailed analysis of prospective applications of the precautionary principle in a number of emerging fields including: nanotechnology, climate change.
Le Principe de Precaution
Author: François EwaldPublisher: Ed. Techniques Ingénieur
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : fr
Pages : 8
Book Description
Largement invoqué dans les affaires récentes qui mobilisent les médias, le principe de précaution suppose un contrôle a priori par l'administration. C'est la recherche du risque zéro et l'émergence d'un Etat de précaution qui se construit d'abord dans sa dimension internationale et favorise l'apparition d'une communauté internationale du risque.
Risk and Precaution
Author: Alan RandallPublisher:
ISBN: 9780511861031
Category : Precautionary principle
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Tackles the key controversies surrounding the precautionary principle and develops a new framework for risk management.
The Price of Precaution and the Ethics of Risk
Author: Christian MunthePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789400736184
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Christian Munthe undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about. A novel theory of the ethics of imposing risks is developed and used as a foundation for defending the idea of precaution in environmental and technological policy making against its critics, while at the same time avoiding a number of identified flaws. The theory is shown to have far-reaching practical conclusions for areas such as bio-, information- and nuclear technology, and global environmental policy in areas such as climate change. The author argues that, while the price we pay for precaution must not be too high, we have to be prepared to pay it in order to act ethically defensible. A number of practical suggestions for precautionary regulation and policy making are made on the basis of this, and some challenges to basic ethical theory as well as consumerist societies, the global political order and liberal democracy are identified. Munthe’s book is a well-argued contribution to the PP debate, putting neglected justificatory and methodological questions at the forefront. His many discussions of alternative accounts as well as his drawing out the consequences of his own suggestion in practical cases give the reader a thorough, holistic sense of what justification of PP amounts to. /..../ Munthe’s main case, his argumentation for the requirement of precaution as a moral norm, is convincing and puts a strong pressure on too narrow alternative suggestions on how it should be perceived and justified, and he launches a plausible defence of its practical usability.
Implementing the Precautionary Principle
Author: Nicolas de SadeleerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136563229
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
From fisheries to persistent organic pollutants to climate change itself, no other environmental principle in environmental law has produced as much controversy as the precautionary principle. Unlike a preventive approach in which action is taken provided that the threats to the environment are tangible, with a precautionary approach, authorities are prepared to tackle risks for which there is no definitive proof that the damage will materialize. The ramifications of this increasingly apparent approach are profound and cut across all areas of risk assessment and management, environmental law, policy and regulation in every major sector. However, to date little thought has been dedicated to the implementation of the precautionary principle in a wide array of environmental circumstances. This authoritative handbook addresses the legal aspects of how the precautionary principle is implemented in different sectors, and examines its successes, failures, strengths and weaknesses. Sectors and subjects covered include chemicals, GMOs, marine pollution, fisheries and nature conservation, and the book draws on cases in the EU, in the USA, and Nordic countries, where the use of precaution has been gathering momentum. Ultimately, the book provides an indispensable appraisal of the question - increasingly important in the era of human-induced climate change - of whether the precautionary principle is relevant, indeed essential, to avert major environmental and health risks, and how and when it can be used successfully. Published with MARIE CURIE ACTIONS
Precautionary Politics
Author: Kerry H WhitesidePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026226515X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The precautionary principle—which holds that action to address threats of serious or irreversible environmental harm should be taken even in the absence of scientific certainty—has been accepted as a key feature of environmental law throughout the European Union. In the United States, however, it is still widely unknown, and much of what has been written on the topic takes a negative view. Precautionary Politics provides a comprehensive analysis of the precautionary principle—its origins and development, its meaning and rationale, its theoretical context, and its policy implications. Kerry Whiteside looks at the application of the principle (and the controversies it has stirred) and compares European and American attitudes toward it and toward environmental regulation in general. Too often, Whiteside argues, American critics of the precautionary principle pay insufficient attention to how the principle has been debated, refined, and elaborated elsewhere. Precautionary Politics fills this gap. Whiteside demonstrates the different responses of Europe and the United States, first by describing the controversy over genetically modified crops, and then by using this example throughout the book to illustrate application of the precautionary principle in different contexts. He contrasts the European view that new types of risk require specially adapted modes of regulation with the American method of science-based risk assessment, and argues that despite Bush administration opposition, U.S.-European convergence on precaution is possible. Finally, he looks at the ways in which participatory innovation can help produce environmentally positive results. Whiteside's systematic defense of the precautionary principle will be an important resource for students, scholars, activists, and policymakers and is particularly suitable for classroom use.
Understanding and Applying the Precautionary Principle in the Energy Transition
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264382585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The precautionary principle has been an important aspect of regulatory delivery for nearly four decades. Now widely applied and with a global reach, the principle is often invoked whenever the scientific evidence surrounding the safety of a given technology is not conclusive. It is often applied where a safety risk is known to exist, but the probability and magnitude of harm are uncertain or unknown.