Precautionary Principle

The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion - Energy Bulletin 11jan05

• Political Will, Political Won't - Paul Chefurka / Speaking Truth to Power 3sep2008

• Chemical Industry Told to Get Tough in Lobbyist's Leaked Memo - San Francisco Chronicle 21nov03

• The Precautionary Principle is Science-based - ISIS Report 4apr03

• One Generation to Save World, Worldwatch Report Warns  - Guardian (UK) 9jan03

• The Skeptical Environmentalist Author Found Guilty of Scientific Dishonesty - Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty 7jan03

• The Precautionary Principle in Action: A Handbook - 1st ed. Science and Environmental Health Network  [also in PDF format 23 pages]

• Preliminary Draft Ordinance - City of San Francisco, CA 12aug02

• European Environment Agency draws key lessons from history on using precaution in policy-making  - News Release 10jan02

• Comment -  Editor / Environmental Science & Technology News 1may02

• Precautionary Principle - Michael Pollan / NY Times Magazine 9dec01

• A Precautionary Primer - Myers & Raffensperger / yes! magazine Fall 2001

• Democracy and the Precautionary Principle -  Science and Environmental Health Network May01

• Precautionary Approaches to the Appraisal of Risk: A Case Study of a Genetically Modified Crop  - Int.J.Occ.Env.Health Oct/Dec00

• Industry's Response to the Precautionary Principle: Prepare for Battle!  - Wirthlin Group Feb00

• The Precautionary Principle:  (Shorter Version) A Common Sense Way to Protect Public Health and the Environment - SEHN Jan00

• The New Uncertainty Principle -  David Appell / Scientific American Jan01

• An Environmentalist's Vision of Operationalizing the Precautionary Principle in the Management of Chemicals - Int.J.Occ.Env.Health Oct/Dec00

• Risk Assessment - Modern Environmental Protection - Part 3 Rachel's Environment and Health Biweekly n.706 17aug00

• Risk Management: Science and the Precautionary Principle - Science v. 288, 12may00 

• On the Application of the Precautionary Principle - Marc Lappé / Center for Ethics and Toxics (CETOS) (undated)

• Cause for Precautionary Action  - Rachel's Environment & Health n.665 26aug99

• Why the Precautionary Principle?    A Meditation on Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and the Breasts of Mothers - Sandra Steingraber 8jul99

• The Uses of Scientific Uncertainty - Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly #657 1jul99

• Absence of Certainty Is Not Synonymous with Absence of Risk. John Cairns, Jr. / Editorial / Environmental Health Perspectives Feb99

• The Role of Science in Public Health Decisions - Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment, MIT Press 1999

• Agreement on Adoption of a Precautionary Approach  - North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) Jun98.

• Precautionary Principle - Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly #586 19feb98

• The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World  - Speech by Vaclav Havel, President, Czech Republic 4jul94

• Consensus Statement -  Conference on Environmentally Induced Alterations in Development: A Focus on Wildlife 12dec93

• Wingspread Statement: Statement from the Work Session on Chemically-Induced Alterations in Sexual Development: the Wildlife/Human Connection. - Wingspread Conference Center Racine, Wisconsin July 1991 28jul1991

• Practical Causal Inference for Ecoepidemiologists  -  Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health 1991

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