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100 1 _aLOFSTEDT, Ragnar
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245 1 0 _aPrecautionary principles :
_bgeneral definitions and specific applications to genetically modified organisms
260 _c2002
520 3 _aPrecautionary principles have been proposed as a fundamental element of sound risk management. Their advocates see them a guiding action in the face of unertainty, encouraging the adoption of measures that reduce serious risks to health, safety, and the environment. Their opponents may reject the very idea of precautionary principles, find specific principles unacceptably vague or see them as clearly doing economic damage - either to society as a whole or to their own interests. This article traces the development of alternative precautionary principles, primarily in Europe. Their adequacy is considered in one context where such principles have often been invoked, using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. Although some precautionary principles can be given analytical rigor, the concerns that they express strain the intellectual and institutional structure of conventional‡ policy analysis
700 1 _aFISCHHOFF, Baruch
_916645
700 1 _aFISCHHOFF, Hya R
_916646
773 0 8 _tJournal of Policy Analysis and Management
_g21, 3, p. 381-407
_d, 2002
_w
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998 _a20020920
_bLucima
_cLucimara
998 _a20060511
_b1456^b
_cQuiteria
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
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