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Introduction to Protecting Public Health and the Environment

Publication Date:

January 1, 1999

Abstract:

A brief history of the precautionary principle. This is part of the introductory chapter to the book edited by Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel Tickner, Protecting Public Health and the Environment; Implementing the Precautionary Principle (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1999).