The Politics of Certainty: The Precautionary Principle, Inductive Risk and Procedural Fairness

Ethics, Policy and Environment 22 (1):21-33 (2019)
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This paper re-interprets the precautionary principle as a ‘social epistemic rule’. First, it argues that sometimes policy-makers should act on claims which have not been scientifically established....

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10.1080/21550085.2019.1581418

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