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100			_aThiele, Leslie Paul
245			_aLimiting risks: environmental ethics as a policy primer
260			_c2000
300			_ap.540-57
520			_aThis article constructs a conceptual and normative framework for policy-oriented discussions of environmental uncertainty and risk. Human-caused environmental risks are unavoidable in a technologically and economically advanced society. Contemporary environmentalists deploy ecological and ethical axioms to structure the debate over environmental uncertainty and risk management. They adopt the "imperative of sustainability" and the "precautionary principle" as the foci of an ethical and ecological effort to evaluate and limit environmental risk. The policy implications of these axioms for those engaged in environmental risk and cost/benefit analysis are explored. - Reproduced
650			_aEnvironmental risks assessment
650			_aDisaster prevention
650			_aEnvironment
773			_aPolicy Studies Journal
909			_a47554
999			_c47554 _d47554