Environmental Risk Analysis: Robustness Is Essential for Precaution.
Precaution is a relevant and much-invoked value in environmental risk analysis, as witnessed by the ongoing vivid discussion about the precautionary principle (PP). This article argues (i) against purely decision-theoretic explications of PP; (ii) that the construction, evaluation, and use of scient...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 881 - 893 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2012
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