|
|
|
books
| book details |
Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle
Edited by Julian Morris
|
| on special |
normal price: R 2 122.95
Price: R 2 015.95
|
| book description |
When environmentalists fail to persuade us that there is an imminent threat of environmental disaster, they typically invoke the ""precautionary principle"" in order to justify their calls for more regulation. This work challenges the claim that the precautionary principle (PP) is an appropriate guide to public policy decisions. The fundamental problem is that it is impossible to prove a negative, so the PP can be used to justify any regulation limiting emissions of any substance. Taken in its extreme form, the PP would end civilisation. In its more practical form, the PP is about taking a hyper-cautious approach to emissions of substances into the environment. This means imposing very strict controls on the licensing of new technologies and cutting back drastically on emissions of substances into the environment. Although not as devastating as Leggett's philosophically dubious proposal, this more practical approach has serious drawbacks The opening brace of papers discusses the dubious philosophical foundations of PP, and consider the consequences of applying it in various policy contexts relating to scientific controversies.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Elsevier Science & Technology
Published date | 19 Sep 2000
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 294
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 470g
ISBN | 978-0-7506-4683-3
Readership Age |
BISAC | political science / public policy / general
| other options |
|
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
|
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
|
Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 520.95
now: R 468.95
|
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.
|
|
|
|
