| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Protecting public health & the environment/ edited by Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel A. Tickner ; foreword by Wes Jackson. |
| Reminder of title: |
implementing the precautionary principle / |
| remainder title: |
Protecting public health and the environment |
| other author: |
Raffensperger, Carolyn. |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :Island Press, : c1999., |
| Description: |
xxvi, 385 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Establishing a general duty of precaution in environmental protection policies in the United States / Ken Geiser -- The precautionary principle in contemporary environmental policy and politics/ Andrew Jordan and Timothy O'Riordan -- The precautionary principle in practice : a mandate for anticipatory preventative action/ David Santillo, Paul Johnston, and Ruth Stringer -- The precautionary approach to chemicals management : a Swedish perspective / Bo Wahlstr鋌m -- Asymmetric information, the precautionary principle, and burdens of proof/ Carl F. Cranor -- The precautionary principle as a screening device / David Ozonoff -- Precautionary science / Katherine Barrett and Carolyn Raffensperger -- The political economy of precaution / R. Michael M'Gonigle -- Precaution and respect/ Anita Bernstein -- A map toward precautionary decision making / Joel A. Tickner -- Applying the precautionary principle in practice : natural heritage conservation in Scotland/ Scottish Natural Heritage -- A conceptual framework for the use of the precautionary principle in law / Nicholas A. Ashford -- Alternatives assessment : part of operationalizing and institutionalizing the precautionary principle/ Mary O'Brien -- Environmental bonds : implementing the precautionary principle in environmental policy / Laura Cornwell and Robert Costanza -- The precautionary principle and corporate disclosure / Sanford Lewis -- Practicing the principle/ Richard D. Sclove and Madeleine L. Scammell -- How much information do we need before exercising precaution? / Gordon K. Durnil -- Can we say "yes" to agriculture using the precautionary principle : a farmer's perspective/ Frederick Kirschenmann -- Precautionary action not taken : corporate structure and the case study of tetraethyl lead in the United States / Peter Montague -- Manganese in gasoline : a case study of the need for precautionary action/ Ted Schettler -- Cleaner production and the precautionary principle / Ken Geiser -- The precautionary principle : application to policies regarding endocrine-disrupting chemicals/ Peter L. deFur -- Why the precautionary principle? A meditation on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the breasts of mothers / Sandra Steingraber. |
| Subject: |
Environmental policy. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=118253An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
141753950X (electronic bk.) |