The lack of clarity in the precautionary principle

Environmental Values

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 449-460

  Turner, Derek ^a   Hartzell, Lauren ^b  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Precautionary principle

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; ETHICS; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

EID: 10844279245     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/0963271042772604     Document Type: Article

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