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The ethics of precaution : uncertain environmental health threats and duties of due care

Szentkirâalyi, Levente, author

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\"There are thousands of substances manufactured in the U.S., to which the public is routinely exposed and for which toxicity data is limited or absent. Some insist that uncertainty about the severity of potential harm justifies implementing precautionary regulations, while others claim that uncertainty justifies the absence of regulations until sufficient evidence confirms a strong probability of severe harm. In this book, Levente Szentkirâalyi overcomes this impasse in his defense of precautionary environmental risk regulation by shifting the focus from how to manage uncertainty to what it is we owe each other morally. He argues that actions that create uncertain threats wrongfully gamble with the welfare of those who are exposed, and neglect the reciprocity that our equal moral standing demands. If we take the moral equality and rights of others seriously, we have a duty to exercise due care to strive to prevent putting them in possible harm's way. The Ethics of Precaution will be of great interest to researchers, educators, advanced students, and practitioners working in the fields of environmental political theory, ethics of risk, and environmental policy\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Environmental risk assessment United States. / Health risk assessment United States. / Environmental risk assessment Moral and ethical aspects. / Health risk assessment Moral and ethical aspects. / Precautionary principle.
• ISBN: 9780367193744

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GE145.S94 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE