Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Perspectives and Prospects - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845427025 ISBN 13: 9781845427023

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

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, it explores 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, natural resource management and public health policy. The analysis is both coherent and interdisciplinary, employing perspectives from law, the social sciences and public policy with a view to improving both the legitimacy and effectiveness of public policy at national and international levels.

Bringing together authors from both policy making and academia and from a wide range of disciplines and jurisdictions, this book will be of interest to academic scholars interested in environmental policy, law and politics.

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About the Author

Edited by Elizabeth Fisher, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK, Judith Jones, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and René von Schomberg, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Belgium and Guest Professor Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845427025
• ISBN 13: 9781845427023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Fisher Elizabeth, Jones Judith, Von Schomberg René