Uncertainty: Cause or effect of stakeholders' debates?. Analysis of a case study: The risk for honeybees of the insecticide Gaucho®

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 376, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Maxim, Laura ^a   van der Sluijs, Jeroen P ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gaucho ; Imidacloprid; Pesticide; Precaution; Risk assessment; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHAREHOLDERS;

IMIDACLOPRID; INFORMATION SOURCE; KNOWLEDGE QUALITY; PRECAUTION;

INSECTICIDES;

IMIDACLOPRID; INSECTICIDE;

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; HONEYBEE; INSECTICIDE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; HONEYBEE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; BEES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; FRANCE; IMIDAZOLES; INSECTICIDES; NITRO COMPOUNDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947166313     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.12.052     Document Type: Article

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