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The "precautionary principle" is widely seen as fundamental to
successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in
international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU,
and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding
what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial.;This volume
looks back over the last century to examine the role the
"principle" played or could have played, in a range of major and
avoidable public disasters. From detailed investigation of how each
disaster unfolded, what the impacts were and what measures were
adopted, the authors draw lessons and establish criteria that could
help to minimise the health and environmental risks of future
technological, economic and policy innovations.;This is an
informative resource for all those from lawyers and policy-makers,
to researchers and students needing to understand or apply the
"principle".
Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the
underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book's chapters
address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and
critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious
disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security
and spirituality and religion. The book argues that uncertainties
must be understood as complex constructions of knowledge,
materiality, experience, embodiment and practice. Examining in
particular how uncertainties are experienced in contexts of
marginalisation and precarity, this book shows how sustainability
and development are not just technical issues, but depend deeply on
political values and choices. What burgeoning uncertainties require
lies less in escalating efforts at control, but more in a new -
more collective, mutualistic and convivial - politics of
responsibility and care. If hopes of much-needed progressive
transformation are to be realised, then currently blinkered
understandings of uncertainty need to be met with renewed
democratic struggle. Written in an accessible style and illustrated
by multiple case studies from across the world, this book will
appeal to a wide cross-disciplinary audience in fields ranging from
economics to law to science studies to sociology to anthropology
and geography, as well as professionals working in risk management,
disaster risk reduction, emergencies and wider public policy
fields.
Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the
underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book's chapters
address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and
critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious
disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security
and spirituality and religion. The book argues that uncertainties
must be understood as complex constructions of knowledge,
materiality, experience, embodiment and practice. Examining in
particular how uncertainties are experienced in contexts of
marginalisation and precarity, this book shows how sustainability
and development are not just technical issues, but depend deeply on
political values and choices. What burgeoning uncertainties require
lies less in escalating efforts at control, but more in a new -
more collective, mutualistic and convivial - politics of
responsibility and care. If hopes of much-needed progressive
transformation are to be realised, then currently blinkered
understandings of uncertainty need to be met with renewed
democratic struggle. Written in an accessible style and illustrated
by multiple case studies from across the world, this book will
appeal to a wide cross-disciplinary audience in fields ranging from
economics to law to science studies to sociology to anthropology
and geography, as well as professionals working in risk management,
disaster risk reduction, emergencies and wider public policy
fields.
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