The ethics of precaution : uncertain environmental health threats and duties of due care
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The ethics of precaution : uncertain environmental health threats and duties of due care
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
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 Szentkiralyi 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.
目次
Introduction: Paradigm Shift in Risk and the Enduring Necessity of Precaution 1. Precautionary Risk Regulation as a Matter of Right 2. Uncertain Environmental Threats as Objective Wrongs 3. Uncertain But Culpable 4. Obligations of Due Care Under Uncertainty 5. The Feasibility of a Precautionary Standard of Due Care Conclusion: Demanding Higher Standards of Corporate Responsibility
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