The Ethics of Precaution : Uncertain Environmental Health Threats and Duties of Due Care Paperback / softback
by Levente Szentkiralyi
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There are thousands of substances manufactured in the United States to which the public is routinely exposed and for which toxicity data are 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 Szentkirályi 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.
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- Pages:212 pages, 17 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781032084640
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages, 17 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032084640