Rupert Read is affiliated with the Green Party. He receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, in his capacity as Principal Investigator on the 2016-18 'Debating Nature's Value' ...

The “precautionary principle” affects global agreements involving environmental, health, and safety policy, yet it has been widely criticized as arbitrary, excessive, counterproductive, and ...

[Based on forthcoming article in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 14 Issue 1, Winter 2013, http://mjlst.umn.edu] In my previous column I noted ...

Today is the first full day of IUCN's 5th World Conservation Congress. Taking place on the beautiful Korean island of Jeju, the Congress brings together a fascinating mix of people from all parts of ...

While working on a chapter dealing with the precautionary principle for a new book, I came across a superb essay in The Freeman from economics Nobelist Friedrich Hayek, The Case for Freedom. Taken ...

SAN FRANCISCO is poised to become the first city in the nation to adopt the Precautionary Principle -- a new policy framework widely used in western and northern European countries for developing laws ...

The concept of a universal precautionary principle apparently has its origins in early German and Swedish thinking about environmental policy, particularly the need for policymakers to practice ...

This UN definition of the ‘precautionary principle’ has been popularly translated using a triple negative: not having proof is not a justification for not taking action. The EC Treaty states that all ...

The CDC just announced the pause of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the U.S. because of six blood clots among seven million people vaccinated. If you're shaking your head trying to figure out why the ...

The genetic modification debate has given new life to what is being called the "precautionary principle," which claims that if the possible adverse consequences are catastrophic, then preventive ...

Plenty of optimism these days about the American economy over the next year or so. Among the reasons: lots of pent-up demand, a flood of federal stimulus money, and maybe even some productivity gains ...

As representatives of one of the civil society organizations mentioned in Miller and Conko's Commentary on the precautionary principle (Nat. Biotechnol. 19 , 302–303, 2001 ), we would like to respond ...