In order to protect the environment the Precautionary Approach is widely applied: fundamentally, where there are potentially grave or irreversible threats, lack of full scientific certainty shall not ...
The “precautionary principle” affects global agreements involving environmental, health, and safety policy, yet it has been widely criticized as arbitrary, excessive, counterproductive, and ...
In their Domestic Environmental Law column, Christine A. Fazio and Ethan I. Strell write: New Yorkers have generally embraced the bulk of scientific evidence that supports the view that the Earth's ...
The concept of a universal precautionary principle apparently has its origins in early German and Swedish thinking about environmental policy, particularly the need for policymakers to practice ...
[Based on forthcoming article in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 14 Issue 1, Winter 2013, http://mjlst.umn.edu] In my previous column I noted ...