2013. 1월에 유럽환경청이 펴낸 보고서
과학기술의 “사전주의의 원칙”을 강조하며
그간 논란이 되었던, 그리고 현재도 논란이 되고 있는 사례들을 정리함
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1 Introduction
Part A Lessons from health hazards
2 The precautionary principle and false alarms — lessons learned
3 Lead in petrol ‘makes the mind give way’
4 Too much to swallow: PCE contamination of mains water
5 Minamata disease: a challenge for democracy and justice
6 Beryllium’s ‘public relations problem’
7 Tobacco industry manipulation of research
8 Vinyl chloride: a saga of secrecy
9 The pesticide DBCP and male infertility
10 Bisphenol A: contested science, divergent safety evaluations
11 DDT: fifty years since Silent Spring
Part B Emerging lessons from ecosystems
12 Booster biocide antifoulants: is history repeating itself?
13 Ethinyl oestradiol in the aquatic environment
14 Climate change: science and the precautionary principle
15 Floods: lessons about early warning systems
16 Seed‑dressing systemic insecticides and honeybees
17 Ecosystems and managing the dynamics of change
Part C Emerging issues
18 Late lessons from Chernobyl, early warnings from Fukushima
19 Hungry for innovation: from GM crops to agroecology
20 Invasive alien species: a growing but neglected threat?
21 Mobile phones and brain tumour risk: early warnings, early actions?
22 Nanotechnology — early lessons from early warnings
Part D Costs, justice and innovation
23 Understanding and accounting for the costs of inaction
24 Protecting early warners and late victims
25 Why did business not react with precaution to early warnings?
Part E Implications for science and governance
26 Science for precautionary decision making
27 More or less precaution?clusion
