Science and the Precautionary Principle

By Kenneth R. Foster, P. Vecchia, M. Repacholi. Science, 2000

412 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Plant Science, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In Plant Science

1. Tom C. Will
2. Peter P. Marra
3. S. Loss
4. L. Fahrig

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Tom C. Will
2. Peter P. Marra
3. S. Loss

Citations in the corpus

• Direct Mortality of Birds from Anthropogenic Causes (2015, positive): “Third, we recommend adherence to a precautionary approach to management (Foster et al. 2000, Gregory & Long 2009), whereby lack of evidence for a population decline owing to one or more mortality sources does not necessarily preclude implementation of mortality reduction measures.”
• Alternatives to statistical hypothesis testing in ecology: a guide to self teaching. (2006, background): “This alternative supports a variant on the precautionary principle, known as the precautionary approach, suggesting that decisions should be made based on weighing the relative risks of actions (Foster et al. 2000, Hilborn et al. 2001).”
• Population impacts of free‐ranging domestic cats on mainland vertebrates (2017, background): “This principle allows ameliorative management even when uncertainty exists about the risk or magnitude of a harmful effect (Foster et al. 2000).”
• The Rauischholzhausen Agenda for Road Ecology (2007, background): “These are frequently viewed as unscientific apologetics, especially in the face of compelling economic counterarguments (Foster et al. 2000, Sunstein 2003, Goldstein and Carruth 2004).”
• Direct human‐caused mortality of birds: improving quantification of magnitude and assessment of population impact (2012, background): “Since direct mortality sources kill large numbers of birds and uncertainty is inherent in even the most sophisticated analytical approaches, we conclude by proposing that those making policy decisions based on mortality estimates and population assessments should consider adopting a precautionary ap”