Opening Pandora's box: Contextualising the precautionary principle in the European Union

Uncertain Risks Regulated

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-45

  Fisher, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77953896295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203884850     Document Type: Chapter

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