Research Catalog

Title

Implementing the precautionary principle : approaches from the Nordic countries, EU and USA / edited by Nicolas de Sadeleer.

Publication

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Sadeleer, Nicolas de.

Description

xxxvi, 396 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Environmental law > European Union countries
• Environmental risk assessment > Law and legislation > European Union countries
• Environmental law > Scandinavia
• Environmental risk assessment > Law and legislation > Scandinavia
• Precautionary principle

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Origin, status and effects of the precautionary principle / Nicolas de Sadeleer -- The precautionary principle in European Community health and environment law : sword or shield for the Nordic countries? / Nicolas de Sadeleer -- Denmark / Ellen Margrethe Basse -- Finland / Erki Hollo -- Iceland / Aðalheiður Jóhannsdóttir -- Norway / Hans Christian Bugge -- Sweden / Gabriel Michanek -- Legal status of precaution in the Nordic countries : a comparative analysis / Nicolas de Sadeleer -- The precautionary principle and Helsinki Commission / Minna Pyhälä ... [et al.] -- The precautionary approach and fisheries : a Nordic perspective / Tore Henriksen -- Uncertainty and precaution : challenges and implications for science and the policy of genetically modified organisms / Ann Ingeborg Myhr -- Genetically modified organisms in European Union law / Theofanis Christoforou -- Genetically modified organisms and precaution in Norwegian law / Ole Kristian Fauchald -- Genetically modified organisms and precaution in Finnish and Swedish law / Jussi Kauppila -- The precautionary principle and nature conservation law : Danish experiences / Helle Tegner Anker -- The precautionary principle in Swedish chemicals law and policy / Annika Nilsson -- Risks, costs and alternatives in European Community environmental legislation : the case of registration, evaluation and authorization of chemicals (REACH) / Gerd Winter -- The impact of registration, evaluation and authorization of chemicals (REACH) on the regulatory powers of the Nordic countries / Nicolas de Sadeleer -- The legacy of the precautionary principle in US law : the rise of cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment as undermining factors in health, safety and environmental protection / Nicholas Ashford -- Lessons from international, EU and Nordic legal regimes / Nicolas de Sadeleer.

Call Number

JBE 07-1739

ISBN

• 9781844073122 (hardback)
• 1844073122 (hardback)

LCCN

2006016205

OCLC

68965737

Title

Implementing the precautionary principle : approaches from the Nordic countries, EU and USA / edited by Nicolas de Sadeleer.

Imprint

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Indexed Term

Precautionary principle

Added Author

Sadeleer, Nicolas de.

Research Call Number

JBE 07-1739