Implementing the Precautionary Principle

Edited by Elizabeth Fisher, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK, Judith Jones, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and René von Schomberg, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Belgium and Guest Professor Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

• Contents:Preface1. Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Perspectives and ProspectsElizabeth Fisher, Judith Jones and René von SchombergPART I: GENERAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE FOR PUBLIC DECISION MAKING2. The Precautionary Principle and its Normative ChallengesRené von Schomberg3. The Role of Science and Precaution in Environmental and Public Health PolicyJoel Tickner and David Kriebel4. The Precautionary Principle and Catastrophism on Tenterhooks: Lessons from Constitutional Reform in FranceOlivier Godard5. Precautionary Policy Assessment for SustainabilityStephen DoversPART II: THE CHALLENGES INVOLVED IN IMPLEMENTING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE6. The Precautionary Principle and Administrative Constitutionalism: The Development of Frameworks for Applying the Precautionary PrincipleElizabeth Fisher and Ronnie Harding7. The Burden and Standard of Proof in Environmental Regulation: The Precautionary Principle in an Australian Administrative ContextJudith Jones and Simon Bronitt8. Tr(e)ading Cautiously: Precaution in WTO Decision MakingJan McDonald9. The Threshold Test of the Precautionary Principle in Australian Courts and Tribunals: Lessons for Judicial ReviewWarwick Gullett10. Precautionary Only in Name? Tensions between Precaution and Risk Assessment in the Australian GMO Regulatory FrameworkJacqueline PeelPART III: PROSPECTIVE APPLICATIONS OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE IN SPECIFIC FIELDS11. A Long and Winding Road? Precaution from Principle to Practice in Biodiversity ConservationRosie Cooney12. Climate Change and the Precautionary PrincipleJeroen van der Sluijs and Wim Turkenburg13. The Tension between Fiction and Precaution in NanotechnologyArie Rip14. A Framework for the Precautionary Governance of Food Safety: Integrating Science and Participation in the Social Appraisal of RiskAndy Stirling, Ortwin Renn and Patrick van ZwanenburgIndex

'. . . this book represents a welcome addition to the literature on PP and is recommended for readers interested in risk assessment, decision making and the precautionary principle.'