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Publisher:Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.
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Introduction -- Biographies -- Defining the precautionary principle / Julian Morris -- Trial and error versus trial without error / Aaron Wildavsky -- The precautionary principle and our obligations to future generations / Wilfred Beckerman -- Precaution, GM crops and farmland birds / Tony Gilland -- Genetically modified fear and the international regulation of biotechnology / Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko -- Asteroid collisions and precautionary thinking / Charles T. Rubin -- Child protection and the precautionary principle / Helene Guldberg -- Plastic panics : European risk regulation in the aftermath of BSE / Bill Durodié -- The precautionary principle as a force for global political centralization : a case-study of the Kyoto Protocol / Bruce Yandle -- Applying the precautionary principle in a broader context / Indur M. Goklany -- A Richter scale for risk? / John Adams -- Facts versus factions: the use and abuse of subjectivity in scientific research / Robert A.J. Matthews.
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