Precautionary principle
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The precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) generally defines actions on issues considered to be uncertain, for instance applied in assessing risk management.
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See also
- Argument from ignorance
- Benefit of the doubt (similar concept)
- Best Available Technology
- Biodiversity
- Biosafety
- Biosecurity
- Chesterton's fence
- Complex systems
- Diffusion of innovations
- Ecologically sustainable development
- Environmental law
- Environmental Principles and Policies
- Health Impact Assessment
- Maximin principle
- Micromort
- Opportunity cost
- Possible carcinogen
- Postcautionary principle
- Prevention of Disasters Principle
- Proactionary Principle
- Risk aversion
- Safe trade
- Substitution principle (sustainability)
- Sustainability
- Tombstone mentality
- Vaccine controversies
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