The role of science and precaution in environmental and public health policy

Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Perspectives and Prospects

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 42-62

  Tickner, Joel ^a   Kriebel, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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