Stretching the frontiers of precaution
The increasing pace and impact of technological change in the world underline the growing need for taking due precautions. In this essay the author reviews a number of cases over the past 2 centuries where new technologies have been introduced too rapidly with too little attention to possible conseq...
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| Language: | English |
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Inter-Research
2002-09-01
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| Series: | Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics |
| Online Access: | http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2002/E13.pdf |