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"Contents" [2006] ELECD 378; in Fisher, Elizabeth; Jones, Judith; von Schomberg, René (eds), "Implementing the Precautionary Principle" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: Implementing the Precautionary Principle

Editor(s): Fisher, Elizabeth; Jones, Judith; von Schomberg, René

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845427023

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of boxes ix
List of contributors xi
Preface xv

1 Implementing the precautionary principle: perspectives
and prospects 1
Elizabeth Fisher, Judith Jones and René von Schomberg

PART I GENERAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE
PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE FOR PUBLIC
DECISION MAKING
2 The precautionary principle and its normative challenges 19
René von Schomberg
3 The role of science and precaution in environmental and
public health policy 42
Joel Tickner and David Kriebel
4 The precautionary principle and catastrophism on
tenterhooks: lessons from a constitutional reform in France 63
Olivier Godard
5 Precautionary policy assessment for sustainability 88
Stephen Dovers


PART II THE CHALLENGES INVOLVED IN
IMPLEMENTING THE PRECAUTIONARY
PRINCIPLE
6 The precautionary principle and administrative
constitutionalism: the development of frameworks for
applying the precautionary principle 113
Elizabeth Fisher and Ronnie Harding


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7 The burden and standard of proof in environmental
regulation: the precautionary principle in an Australian
administrative context 137
Judith Jones and Simon Bronitt
8 Tr(e)ading cautiously: precaution in WTO decision making 160
Jan McDonald
9 The threshold test of the precautionary principle in Australian
courts and tribunals: lessons for judicial review 182
Warwick Gullett
10 Precautionary only in name? Tensions between
precaution and risk assessment in the Australian GMO
regulatory framework 202
Jacqueline Peel

PART III PROSPECTIVE APPLICATIONS OF THE
PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE IN
SPECIFIC FIELDS

11 A long and winding road? Precaution from principle
to practice in biodiversity conservation 223
Rosie Cooney
12 Climate change and ...