The Price of precaution and the ethics of risk / Christian Munthe
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TextSeries: The international library of ethics, law and technology ; 6Publication details: Dordrecht : Springer, 2011Description: xi, 189p. 24cmISBN: - 9789400713291
- 302.12 MUN
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| 302.12 HAR Attribution : | 302.12 KUN Social cognition: | 302.12 LUP Risk and sociocultural theory : | 302.12 MUN The Price of precaution and the ethics of risk / | 302.12 ROL Social cognition and communication / | 302.12 SKI Risk / | 302.12 STR Social cognition : |
In this book, the author undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about. A novel theory of the ethics of imposing risks is developed and used as a foundation for defending the idea of precaution in environmental and technological policy making against its critics, while at the same time avoiding a number of identified flaws. The theory is shown to have far-reaching practical conclusions for areas such as bio-, information- and nuclear technology, and global environmental policy in areas such as climate change. The author argues that, while the price we pay for precaution must not be too high, we have to be prepared to pay it in order to act ethically defensible.
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