Research Catalog

Title

The precautionary principle and international law : the challenge of implementation / edited by David Freestone and Ellen Hey.

Publication

The Hague ; Boston : Kluwer Law International, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Freestone, David
• Hey, Ellen

Description

xv, 274 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Papers presented at the meetings facilitated by the Sanders Institute at the Faculty of Law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Law School of the University of Hull.

Series Statement

International environmental law and policy series ; v. 31

Uniform Title

International environmental law and policy series v. 31.

Subject

• Environmental policy
• International law > Methodology
• Risk Management
• Risk management
• Science and law
• Technology and law

Note

• Papers presented at the meetings facilitated by the Sanders Institute at the Faculty of Law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Law School of the University of Hull.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Origings and development of the precautionary principle / David Freestone and Ellen Hey -- pt. I. The legal challenges of the precautionary principle -- 2. The rights and interests of future generations and the precautionary principle / Alexander Kiss -- 3. The status of the precautionary principle in international law / James Cameron and Juli Abouchar -- 4. State responsibility and the precautionary principle / Catherine Tinker -- 5. "What you risk reveals what you value", and other dilemmas encountered in the legal assaults on risks / Andre Nolkaemper --
• pt. II. The wider context of implementing the precautionary principle -- 6. The relationship between policy, science, technology, economics and law in the implementation of the precautionary principle / Konrad von Moltke -- 7. Scientific methods and the precautionary principle / Laurence David Mee -- 8. Integrating precautionary scientific methods into decision-making / John S. Gray -- 9. The economics of taking care: an evaluation of the precautionary principle / David Fleming --
• pt. III. Some legal and institutional aspects of implementing the precautionary principle -- 10. The precautionary approach in international human rights law: how it can benefit the environment / Menno T. Kamminga -- 11. EC environmental policy - a pre-cautionary tale? / Leigh Hancher --g12. The impact of scientific uncertainty on environmental law and policy in the United States / Dinah Shelton -- 13. Glocalization: the precautionary principle and public participation, with special reference to the UN framework convention on climate change / Joyeeta Gupta -- 14. Implementing the precautionary principle: challenges and opportunities / David Freestone and Ellen Hey.

ISBN

9041101438 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95040129^

OCLC

33244244

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