UID:
edocfu_9959227233302883
Format:
1 online resource (289 p.)
ISBN:
1-85383-893-4
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1-134-20778-6
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1-315-07198-3
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1-4175-2254-2
Content:
The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU, and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial. This volume looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played or could have played, in a range of major and avoidable public disasters. From detailed investigation of how each disaster unfolded, what the impacts were and what measures were adopted, the authors draw
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Fisheries : taking stock / Malcolm MacGarvin -- Radiation : early warnings, late effects / Barrie Lambert -- Benzene : an historical perspective on the American and European occupational setting / Peter F. Infante -- Asbestos : from 'magic' to malevolent mineral / David Gee and Morris Greenberg -- PCBs and the precautionary principle / Janna G. Koppe and Jane Keys -- Halocarbons, the ozone layer and the precautionary principle / Joe Farman -- The DES story : long-term consequences of prenatal exposure / Dolores Ibarreta and Shanna H. Swan -- Antimicrobials as growth promoters : resistance to common sense / Lars-Erik Edqvist and Knud Børge Pedersen -- Sulphur dioxide : from protection of human lungs to remote lake restoration / Arne Semb -- MTBE in petrol as a substitute for lead / Martin Krayer von Krauss and Poul Harremoës -- Early warnings of chemical contamination of the Great Lakes / Michael Gilbertson -- Tributyltin (TBT) antifoulants : a tale of ships, snails and imposex / David Santillo, Paul Johnston and William J Langston -- Hormones as growth promoters : the precautionary principle or a political risk assessment? / Jim W. Bridges and Olga Bridges -- 'Mad cow disease' - 1980s-2000 : how reassurances undermined precaution / Patrick van Zwanenberg and Erik Millstone -- Twelve late lessons -- Conclusions.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-99650-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-85383-892-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315071985
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