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Chemicals for a sustainable future; Report of the EEA Scientific Committee Seminar (Copenhagen, 17 May 2017)

… approaches are needed, as well as wider application of the precautionary principle in risk assessments. Critical properties of … wide range of activities, spanning from application of the precautionary principle and management of chemicals in the …
21 May 2026 Document

Haze Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… fires within the context of sustainable development, Principle 2 and 15, the precautionary principle of the Rio Declaration. Parties to the 2002 ASEAN …
21 May 2026 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Effective planning strategies for managing environmental risk associated with geophisical and other imaging surveys - A resource guide for managers

… environmental legislation, the ideal remains, and a precautionary approach to scientific uncertainty is warranted … following good environmental practice. More protective (or precautionary) approaches (e.g., the comprehensive …
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Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning

… and functioning. Using ecosystem types is a precautionary approach in situations where other biodiversity … representative samples of ecosystems and species (the principle of representation), as well as the ecological … processes that allow them to persist over time (the principle of persistence), as discussed in Section 3: Guiding …
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Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… as well, and on the previous conservation decisions. The principle of complementarity (Vane-Wright et al. 1991) means … planning than omission errors. False negatives are precautionary in that they assume that conservation efforts … in identifying candidate KBAs and support the use of a precautionary management approach in some areas (e.g., …
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The SHPF toolkit - A toolkit to help you to monitor and report incidents of pesticide poisoning caused by Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulations in your country under Article 6 of the Rotterdam Convention

… as far as any causal relationship. However, using the precautionary principle, the plantation workers and their supporters …
21 May 2026 Document

Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… and data should be collected. 7 – In applying the principle of equity, it is assumed that the removal of … manage OUV. 9. Field researchers should adopt the highest precautionary standards to avoid the accidental introduction … 5.3 for a discussion on tourism at World Heritage sites. Principle 1: Contribution to World Heritage objectives …
21 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows

… determine what constitutes an essential contribution. In principle, if the same discovery/invention could have … expected value is much higher. Border controls, while in principle appealing as check points, present a number of … in a narrow sense, i.e., post- distribution, as well as precautionary action that should enable tracking in a later …
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Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts

… 1992; Gobas et al., 1993; Campfens and Mackay, 1997). In principle, these models can also be used to predict how … and changing climates. Given the current knowledge gaps, a precautionary approach is needed to guide the development and …
21 May 2026 Document

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… to humans. This chapter follows the “chain of impacts” principle to emphasize cascading effects, going from changes … Will be increasingly difficult. Returning to a more precautionary approach would appear sensible and, as marine … currently at less than 5% of what would be regarded as a precautionary catch limit (Kawaguchi and Nicol, 2014). They …
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