Precautionary Principle

The precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) is a broad epistemological, philosophical and legal approach to innovations with potential for causing harm when extensive scientific knowledge on the matter is lacking. It emphasizes caution, pausing and review before leaping into new innovations that may prove disastrous. Critics argue that it is vague, self-cancelling, unscientific and an obstacle to progress.In an engineering context, the precautionary principle manifests itself as the factor of safety, discussed in detail in the monograph of Elishakoff. It was apparently suggested, in civil engineering, by Belindor in 1729. Interrelation between safety factor and reliability is extensively studied by …

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PPF: Public Policy Forum  · 18 September 2024 English

Progressives who generally have a more ambitious view of the role of the state A solid working definition of state capac- in the economy and society ought to be ity …

• Regulatory processes imbued with a “precautionary principle” in place • Growing federal attention to


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 5 September 2024 English

Finally, having established that the doctrines of In February 2023, the Netherlands hosted the command and state responsibility are crucial to inaugural global summit on the Responsible Use maintaining accountability …

proportionality assessment calculated with the precautionary principle is, therefore, a minimum military advantage would be true if a LAWS This leads to the precautionary principle, another proved to be better at making


CELA: Canadian Environmental Law Association · 30 August 2024 English

Submission by the Canadian Environmental Law Association to the Canadian Nuclear Safety 1500 no ISBN assigned Commission Regarding the Regulatory Oversight Report on the Use of Nuclear Substances in Canada: …

452 978-1-77189-351-0 Bibliography The precautionary Principle September 1, 2003 17 .pdf $2.50 Candidate


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 23 August 2024 English

Manitoba is home to a vibrant commercial net-fishing industry. Each year, this industry produces approximately 13 million kg of freshwater fish, making Manitoba the second-largest commercial producer of freshwater fish …

involved in the pace of market shifts, the precautionary principle should be strongly considered in the case involved in the pace of market shifts, the precautionary principle should be strongly considered in the case Manitoba’s commercial fisheries. The precautionary principle, commonly used in the field of sustainable


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

distinction of reversibility from the precautionary principle and resilience Reversibility shares the concepts are the precautionary principle and resilience. The precautionary principle became popular in 43 The most explicit definition of the precautionary principle comes from the European Environ- ment Agency distinction should be made, however, between the precautionary principle and a precautionary approach. The so-called has noted, the distinction between the precautionary principle and a precautionary approach is diffuse


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 15 May 2024 English

International investment treaties and their investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system are facing growing scrutiny of how they threaten climate action, environmental protection, and social justice. But what would an alternative …

“do no harm,” “polluter pays,” or “the precautionary principle.” A related issue is that investor treaty


JCCF: Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms · 14 May 2024 English

(2) If, based on the opinion of the chief medical health officer that the increased rate of infection or the expectation of an increased risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2 is …

life was at risk. As such, I find the precautionary principle to be essential in this case. Dr. Khaketla’s promptly and effectively, applying the precautionary principle. Considering the overwhelming effect of appropriate for the motion judge to consider the precautionary principle as informing whether and how the state constitutional standard in itself, the precautionary principle helps inform what it means to rely on a Saskatchewan Court of King’s Bench found the precautionary principle was “essential” in the s. 1 context when


CELA: Canadian Environmental Law Association · 26 April 2024 English

Submission by the Canadian Environmental Law Association to the Canadian Nuclear Safety 1500 Commission Regarding the Regulatory Oversight Report on the Use of Nuclear Substances in Sara Libman October 12, …

B., M.E.S., Ph.D 452 Bibliography The precautionary Principle September 1, 2003 17 .pdf $2.50 Candidate


ELC: Environmental Law Centre · 23 April 2024 English

In the case of the Tobacco Act, the federal government is exercising its criminal law power to create legislation that addresses the public health concern of smoking, and it regulates …

Amendments direct Ministers to apply the precautionary principle when assessing whether a substance qualifies to identify toxic substances using the precautionary principle and consider their cumulative effects.87


LCO: Law Commission of Ontario · 14 March 2024 English

Commissioner is now an employee of the Auditor General and is expected to perform the duties assigned by the Auditor General.120 Furthermore, it is now the Downgrading the Environmental Auditor …

including its biological (ii) applies the precautionary principle, diversity, and human health, from the subsections • The Precautionary Principle. (1) and (2), this Act provides, The precautionary principle holds that of the Government of definition of the precautionary principle originated Ontario for its environmental protection for employees who take action precautionary principle in the administration of in respect of currently include important upheld the precautionary principle on several environmental principles such


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