Precautionary Politics: Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Kerry H Whiteside
English | Oct. 6, 2006 | ISBN: 0262232553 | 201 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
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.