Decision-Making Under Scientific Uncertainty: The Economics of the Precautionary Principle

By Christian Gollier, Nicolas Treich. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Citations in the corpus

• Central banks and financial crises (2008, unknown): “(Gollier and Treich (2003)).”
• Integrating Ecology and Economics in the Study of Ecosystem Services: Some Lessons Learned (2009, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. principle, which places a high burden of proof on proponents of actions that might cause irreversible harm (for an economic evaluation of the precautionary principle, see Gollier et al. 2000, Gollier & Treich 2003).”
• Strategies to adapt to an uncertain climate change (2008, background): “In the public domain, the precautionary principle (Gollier and Treich, 2003) is another example of decision-making strategy that takes into account in an explicit manner the uncertainty (see an application to forestry in Spittlehouse and Stewart, 2003).”