Add to ORKGThe Precautionary Principle (PP) is an influential principle of risk management. It has been widely introduced into environmental legislation, and it plays an important role in most international environmental agreements. Yet, there is little consensus on precisely how to understand and formulate the principle. In this paper I prove some impossibility results for two plausible formulations of the PP as a decision-rule. These results illustrate the difficulty in making the PP consistent with the acceptance of any trade-offs between catastrophic risks and more ordinary goods
This article argues that no version of the precautionary principle can be reasonably applied to deci...
The Precautionary Principle (Rio Conference, Maastricht Treaty) is becoming increasingly prominent i...
The paper addresses charges of risk and loss aversion as well as of irrationality directed against t...
The Precautionary Principle (PP) is an influential principle of risk management. It has been widely ...
The problem context. The precautionary principle (PP) has been proposed as a guide for public policy...
The precautionary principle recommends preventing possible harm to human health and environ-ment. It...
The Precautionary Principle is both celebrated and criticized. It has become an important principle ...
Over the coming decades, the increasingly popular “precautionary principle” is likely to have a sign...
The precautionary principle has been highly influential in legal systems all over the world. In its ...
In rough outline, the precautionary principle (PP) states that precautionary actions should be taken...
In the past two decades, the precautionary principle has appeared ever more widely in national and i...
The idea of a precautionary principle (or precautionary principles) is beginning to come to the wide...
This article presents the most relevant economic approaches and models that have been developed for ...
This article argues that no version of the precautionary principle can be reasonably applied to deci...
The Precautionary Principle (Rio Conference, Maastricht Treaty) is becoming increasingly prominent i...
The paper addresses charges of risk and loss aversion as well as of irrationality directed against t...
The Precautionary Principle (PP) is an influential principle of risk management. It has been widely ...
The problem context. The precautionary principle (PP) has been proposed as a guide for public policy...
The precautionary principle recommends preventing possible harm to human health and environ-ment. It...
The Precautionary Principle is both celebrated and criticized. It has become an important principle ...
Over the coming decades, the increasingly popular “precautionary principle” is likely to have a sign...
The precautionary principle has been highly influential in legal systems all over the world. In its ...
In rough outline, the precautionary principle (PP) states that precautionary actions should be taken...
In the past two decades, the precautionary principle has appeared ever more widely in national and i...
The idea of a precautionary principle (or precautionary principles) is beginning to come to the wide...
This article presents the most relevant economic approaches and models that have been developed for ...
This article argues that no version of the precautionary principle can be reasonably applied to deci...
The Precautionary Principle (Rio Conference, Maastricht Treaty) is becoming increasingly prominent i...
The paper addresses charges of risk and loss aversion as well as of irrationality directed against t...