The Precautionary Principle (PDF)
A Critical Appraisal
(Sprache: Englisch)
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....
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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 innovative 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.The precautionary principle, unfortunately, does not provide any method of resolving such dilemmas, which are commonplace in the field of environmental policy. To address that problem, Goklany develops a framework consistent with the precautionary principle to resolve such dilemmas. That framework ranks potential threats to the environment on the basis of their nature, magnitude, immediacy, uncertainty, persistence, and the extent to which they can be alleviated. Applying that framework to three contentious environmental policy issues facing humanity and the globe — DDT, bioengineered crops, and global warming — Goklany shows that some popular policy prescriptions, despite good intentions, are in fact likely to do more harm than good.
Autoren-Porträt von Indur M. Goklany
Indur M. Goklany has worked with federal and state governments, think tanks and the private sector for over 30 years, and written extensively on globalization and environmental issues including sustainable development, technological change, food and health. He has represented the United States at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and in the negotiations that established the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He was chief of the Technical Assessment Division of the National Commission on Air Quality and a consultant to the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation. He is the author of The Precautionary Principle and Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution.
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- Autor: Indur M. Goklany
- 2001, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1933995858
- ISBN-13: 9781933995854
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2001
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