The Precautionary Principle : its Implications in Capture Fisheries Management

Risk management for fisheries

Introduction 342 Risk, risk management and the fisheries context 343 Survey of risk management strategies in use or applicable to fisheries 345 Identify and analyse risk: decision analysis and risk assessment 345 Multicriteria decision making 347 Multiple objective optimization 348 Decision aids 348 Scenario planning and maps 349 Dynamic risk management: option value and adaptive management 349...

Risk management in transfusion after the HIV blood contamination crisis in France: the impact of the precautionary principle.

The importance of the precautionary principle in public health was highlighted in France after the HIV contamination of blood products used for transfusion. However, the definition of this principle, its objectives, the way in which it should be applied, and its consequences had not been considered previously. The question as to whether the application of the precautionary principle is appropri...

Study Group on the Precautionary Approach to Fisheries Management

What Price Safety? The Precautionary Principle and its Policy Implications

The European Commission is actively promoting the precautionary principle as a “key tenet” of Community policy as well as a general principle of international law. This paper explains why this promotional effort is likely to fail or to produce unanticipated and undesirable consequences. The principle has a legitimate but limited role to play in risk management, for example whenever there is an ...

Biotechnology, Biomedicine and the Precautionary Principle

The Precautionary Principle is introduced and shown to be applicable to several kinds of biotechnology, such as the agricultural production of biofuels and the release of genetically modified varieties of food-species and of medicinal species into the environment. This Principle has been accused of involving policies of Maximin. However, the crucial difference between these stances is clarified...