Precaution or Integrated Responsibility Approach to Nanovaccines in Fish Farming? A Critical Appraisal of the UNESCO Precautionary Principle

NanoEthics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-86

  Myhr, Anne Ingeborg ^a   Myskja, Bjørn K ^b  

^a Genøk Center for Biosafety   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Ethics; Nanoparticle; Responsibility; Scientific uncertainty; The precautionary principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954939566     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-011-0112-4     Document Type: Article

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