The Precautionary principle in practice : environmental decision-making and scientific uncertainty / Jacqueline Peel.

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Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 2005.

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25584

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Australian Legal Monographs.

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Environmental risk assessment -- Australia.

Health risk assessment -- Australia.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Precautionary decision-making in context

3. Understanding scientific uncertainty

4. Assessing threats of damage in conditions of uncertainty

5. Taking a "precautionary approach" to fisheries management

6. Mobile phone towers and the application of precaution

7. "Precautionary" decision-making processes

8. Implementing precaution in GMO risk assessment

9. Caution and precaution in EIA for development

10. An approach for practice - precaution as process.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1862875197

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xi, 244 p.