Late Lessons from Early Warnings: Science, Precaution, Innovation 92 5 Minamata Disease: a Challenge for Democracy and Justice

Implications for Science and Governance | More or Less Precaution? Late Lessons from Early Warnings: Science, Precaution, Innovation 27 More or Less Precaution?

Despite its presence in a growing body of EU and national legislation and case law, the application of the precautionary principle has been strongly opposed by vested interests who perceive short term economic costs from its use. There is also intellectual resistance from scientists who fail to acknowledge that scientific ignorance and uncertainty, are excessively attached to conventional scien...

Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation

Emerging Lessons from Ecosystems | Floods: Lessons about Early Warning Systems Late Lessons from Early Warnings: Science, Precaution, Innovation 347 Emerging Lessons from Ecosystems | Floods: Lessons about Early Warning Systems

(1) The author gratefully acknowledges valuable comments from five reviewers, Keith Beven, Jim Hall, Irina Krasovskaia, Edmund Penning-Rowsell, and Bellie Sivakumar. They helped the author to improve and enrich the chapter. (2) The work on this chapter was carried out within the WATCH (Water and Global Change) Integrated Project of the European Union's 6th Framework Programme. Floods are an inc...

Late Lessons from Early Warnings: Science, Precaution, Innovation 240 Lessons from Health Hazards | Ddt: Fifty Years since Silent Spring 240 11 Ddt: Fifty Years since Silent Spring

(1) The authors would like to thank David Gee for helping to prepare the manuscript. 'There was a strange stillness. The birds for example — where had they gone? Many people spoke about them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund: they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices ... only sil...

Late Lessons from Early Warnings: Towards realism and precaution with EMF?

The histories of some well-known public and environmental hazards, from the first scientifically based early warnings about potential harm, to the subsequent precautionary and preventive measures, have been reviewed by the European Environment Agency in their report "Late Lessons from Early Warnings: The Precautionary Principle 1896-2000". This paper summarises some of the definitional and othe...