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The Irrelevance of the Risk-Uncertainty Distinction.

Precautionary Principles are often said to be appropriate for decision-making in contexts of uncertainty such as climate policy. Contexts of uncertainty are contrasted to contexts of risk depending on whether we have probabilities or not. Against this view, I argue that the risk-uncertainty distinct...

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Published in:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 1387 - 1408
Main Author: Roser, Dominic
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Oct2017
Subjects:
Climate change
Decision making
Uncertainty
Environmental policy
Epistemics
Probability theory
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