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

Some Emerging Issues | Ecosystems and Managing the Dynamics of Change Late Lessons from Early Warnings: Science, Precaution, Innovation 407 Some Emerging Issues | Ecosystems and Managing the Dynamics of Change

A decade after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published, describing the toxic legacy of the twentieth century, Annie Dillard in her Pulitzer prize winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, opened up a different way of looking at the world. It presaged a twenty first century in which the global economy would be based on a more thorough understanding of nature, its functioning and material wealth....

Why did business not react with precaution to early warnings ?

In the past, companies have frequently neglected early warning signals about potential hazards for human health or the environment associated with their products or operations. This chapter reviews and analyses relevant interdisciplinary literature and prominent case studies — in particular those documented in both volumes of Late lessons from early warnings — and identifies main factors respon...

Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation

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...