THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE REVISITED: ITS INTERPRETATIONS AND THEIR CONSERVATION CONSEQUENCES

The Precautionary Principle Revisited:

The precautionary principle was included in 1992 in the Rio Declaration on Environmental and Development and is a part of important international agreements and documents, for example, the Convention on Biological Diversity. Yet the interpretation of this principle is not straightforward as a guide for environmental policy – a variety of interpretations are possible. This paper identifies and e...

After Fukushima : The precautionary principle revisited

How to cite this article: Huber, W., 2012, ‘After Fukushima: The precautionary principle revisited’, Verbum et Ecclesia 33(2), Art. #736, 6 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ ve.v33i2.736 Etienne de Villiers, more than other theologians, elaborates on basic elements of a Christian ethics of responsibility. He distinguishes between retrospective and prospective responsibility. The prospective asp...

The Precautionary Principle in Biodiversity Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Founded in 1948, The World Conservation Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 1000 members in all, spread across some 140 countries. As a Union, IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any ...

Chain graph interpretations and their relations revisited

In this paper we study how different theoretical concepts of Bayesian networks have been extended to chain graphs. Today there exist mainly three different interpretations of chain graphs in the literature. These are the Lauritzen-Wermuth-Frydenberg, the Andersson-Madigan-Perlman and the multivariate regression interpretations. The different chain graph interpretations have been studied indepen...

Standing and the Precautionary Principle