Precaution and proportionality in the management of global environmental change

Publication year: 2011 Source: Global Environmental Change, Available online 12 October 2011 Terrence Iverson, Charles Perrings The precautionary principle is a mandate to tread cautiously when managing novel threats to the environment or human health. A major obstacle when applying the principle at the international level is disagreement about how precautionary efforts should be constrained to ensure that policy costs are proportional to the attained level of protection. Proportionality is an unresolved question when preliminary evidence precludes decision-makers from assigning probabilities over future events

Publication year: 2011 Source: Global Environmental Change, Available online 12 October 2011 Terrence Iverson, Charles Perrings The precautionary principle is a mandate to tread cautiously when managing novel threats to the environment or human health. A major obstacle when applying the principle at the international level is disagreement about how precautionary efforts should be constrained to ensure that policy costs are proportional to the attained level of protection. Proportionality is an unresolved question when preliminary evidence precludes decision-makers from assigning probabilities over future events

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