Social Learning Group (Ed.): Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks / P. Harremoës et al.:The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-54
Author(s):  
Hans-Jochen Luhmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
The Precautionary Principle ◽  
Learning Group ◽  
Global Environmental

Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks, vols. 1 & 2. By The Social Learning Group. Edited by William C. Clark, Nancy Dickson, Jill Jäger, and Josee van Eijndhoven. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. Vol. 1: $75.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. Vol. 2: $60.00 cloth, $27.00 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 681-682
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Learning Group ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Change Direction ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social

I have a colleague who collects maps of Africa that demonstrate a specific phenomenon: the developed world's unlearning of African geography. Across the centuries, the maps seem to show that mapmakers know less about the geography of the African continent—particularly the internal parts—than previously was the case. Rivers change direction; mountain ranges disappear. This unlearning, my colleague argues, comes from notions about the acceptability of sources of information previously used. These maps show the social nature of “learning,” the idea that while in many cases there may be actual answers (after all, African geography exists), what information you look for, and from whom, determines how you will view the information you get, and ultimately what you will do with it.

Precautionary Schemes

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane K. Winn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
The Precautionary Principle ◽  
Narrative Framework ◽  
Intense Debate

“And remember you’re in France: The customer is always wrong!”Many years ago, there was intense debate about what the Precautionary Principle (“PP”) is, or is not. More recently, as the battle lines in that debate have ossified, academic attention seems to have shifted to a focus on the somewhat more subtle question of how the term PP, whatever it may mean, is used by different actors in different contexts. David Vogel’s recent book, The Politics of Precaution: Regulating the Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States (2012) (hereafter “Politics”), is a good recent example of such commentary. Vogel's approach recognizes the diversity of relevant developments, he seeks to impose a coherent narrative framework on those developments.

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