In France the precautionary principle gave birth to two basic opposite interpretations. The first one, fixed in the French legal framework and developed by the European doctrine, supports an early but proportionate consideration of potential hazards. The second one has been backed by environmental NGOs and disseminated into current use by media and political circles under crisis circumstances. It asks for a proof of no-risk and aims at eradicating all sources of hazards to the possible extent. As a result, a basic confusion arose between two ideas: to take early preventive action, and to accumulate more stringent preventive measures. Firstly, the paper sketches the landscape of competing concepts. It then shows why the "abstention rule" can...
The principle of precaution, a fundamental, essentially legalistic, rule underpinning health care le...
International audienceFollowing several crises, the French Food Safety Agency was set up in 1999 to ...
Precautionary saving was first modelled by Leland (1968), Sandmo (1970) and Drèze & Modigliani (1972...
In France the precautionary principle gave birth to two basic opposite interpretations. The first on...
The project to insert an Environmental Chart in the French Constitution has raised a public controve...
In spite of early confusion, the precautionary principle is very different from the principle of abs...
Scientific expertise is one of two main bases on which the precautionary principle depends for its i...
Le principe de précaution est devenu une véritable méta-norme, censée encadrer les décisions concern...
A conceptual framework is provided by the "states of the world" approach (reviewed in section 1). Th...
La thèse centrale de mon texte est conceptuelle. Le vrai problème du principe de précaution, au moin...
National audienceDepuis quelques années une nouvelle référence normative est apparue dans le champ d...
National audienceWith the precautionary principle, knowledge, risk assessment and action come togeth...
La gestion des risques liés aux plantes génétiquement modifiées est examinée à l’aune du principe de...
The principle of precaution, a fundamental, essentially legalistic, rule underpinning health care le...
International audienceFollowing several crises, the French Food Safety Agency was set up in 1999 to ...
Precautionary saving was first modelled by Leland (1968), Sandmo (1970) and Drèze & Modigliani (1972...
In France the precautionary principle gave birth to two basic opposite interpretations. The first on...
The project to insert an Environmental Chart in the French Constitution has raised a public controve...
In spite of early confusion, the precautionary principle is very different from the principle of abs...
Scientific expertise is one of two main bases on which the precautionary principle depends for its i...
Le principe de précaution est devenu une véritable méta-norme, censée encadrer les décisions concern...
A conceptual framework is provided by the "states of the world" approach (reviewed in section 1). Th...
La thèse centrale de mon texte est conceptuelle. Le vrai problème du principe de précaution, au moin...
National audienceDepuis quelques années une nouvelle référence normative est apparue dans le champ d...
National audienceWith the precautionary principle, knowledge, risk assessment and action come togeth...
La gestion des risques liés aux plantes génétiquement modifiées est examinée à l’aune du principe de...
The principle of precaution, a fundamental, essentially legalistic, rule underpinning health care le...
International audienceFollowing several crises, the French Food Safety Agency was set up in 1999 to ...
Precautionary saving was first modelled by Leland (1968), Sandmo (1970) and Drèze & Modigliani (1972...