The Precautionary Principle for Environmental Management: A Defensive-expenditure Application

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.F. Rogers ◽  
J.A. Sinden ◽  
T. De Lacy
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
The Precautionary Principle ◽  
Defensive Expenditure

THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE AND THE BOOK OF PROVERBS: TOWARD AN ETHIC OF ECOLOGICAL PRUDENCE IN OCEAN MANAGEMENT

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Power Bratton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Weak Form ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
The Precautionary Principle ◽  
Ocean Management ◽  
Do No Harm

AbstractRecent catastrophes in environmental management, such as population collapses in oceanic fisheries, have led environmental activists and scholars to invoke the precautionary principle (PP). In its strong form, PP demands that no human-initiated change in an ecosystem be permitted unless it is certain it will do no harm; while, in its weak form, PP holds that if an action might be environmentally harmful, regulators may, on best evidence, limit human activities to avoid damaging ecosystem perturbations. Implementing PP, however, presents epistemological, logical and practical difficulties. This paper compares the function of PP to that of the Biblical Wisdom literature in encouraging ecological prudence, and argues that PP should be replaced by a series of guiding concepts, dealing with the limitations of ecological knowledge and the flaws in human character most likely to result in environmental disaster. The environmental cases analysed are from oceanic fisheries management.

THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE—NEW OPPORTUNITIES OR NEW CONSTRAINTS FOR THE OIL EXPLORATION INDUSTRY?

1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
H.R. Harding ◽  
E.C. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Scientific Uncertainty ◽  
Community Values ◽  
The Precautionary Principle ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
Present Trend ◽  
Potential Benefits

'Corporations if they are to remain in business for the long term must operate within a context of community values'. Burnup (1993)The precautionary principle has in recent years become embodied in Australian environmental policy and the present trend for its inclusion in legislation is likely to continue. Recent cases illustrate its application to the assessment of specific projects. Given these cases the precautionary principle needs to be placed on the oil E&P industry's environmental management agenda. The principle is not a simple rule of 'zero risk', but rather is a complex concept concerned with scientific uncertainty and information integrity and may require enhanced public participation for its application. More importantly application of the precautionary principle is a process in which industry has an important role to play. It is argued that participation in this process offers significant potential benefits for industry.

scholarly journals Environmental Management: the Precautionary Principle and Null Hypotheses

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 78 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Goodall
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The Precautionary Principle

A recent paper (Calver et al. 1999) exemplifies an approach to environmental problems which, though common, is often inappropriate, and may indeed be counterproductive in confrontational situations. An examination seems called for.

The Controllability Precautionary Principle: Justification of a Climate Policy Goal Under Uncertainty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugen Pissarskoi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
The Precautionary Principle ◽  
Climate Change Policies

How can we reasonably justify a climate policy goal if we accept that only possible consequences from climate change are known? Precautionary principles seem to offer promising guidelines for reasoning in such epistemic situations. This chapter presents two versions of the precautionary principle (PP) and defends one of them as morally justifiable. However, it argues that current versions of the PP do not allow discrimination between relevant climate change policies. Therefore, the chapter develops a further version of the PP, the Controllability Precautionary Principle (CPP), and defends its moral plausibility. The CPP incorporates the following idea: in a situation when the possible outcomes of the available actions cannot be ranked with regard to their value, the choice between available options for action should rest on the comparison of how well decision makers can control the processes of the implementation of the available strategies.

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