Sentence examples for precautionary decisions from inspiring English sources

We argue that a greater focus on alternatives assessment can enhance the ability of decision makers to make truly precautionary decisions, stimulate innovation toward sustainable production, and more effectively place burdens on to those creating risks.

Because the scientific conventions for inferring evidence of harm in some fields might require placing the public at risk for extended periods of time before the evidence could be accumulated, precautionary decisions to engage in particular forms of regulation may sometimes be appropriate in response to more limited evidence (Cranor 2011; Martuzzi 2007).

Rutnam said he knew of no bias or impropriety, and he – not ministers – had taken the "precautionary" decision to suspend three civil servants.

Manufacturing doubt, disregarding scientific evidence of risks and claiming over-regulation appear to be a deliberate strategy for some industry groups and think tanks to undermine precautionary decision-making".

We discuss the implications of these results for precautionary decision-making on active volcanoes.

Within the scientific community, there is considerable variation concerning views about false alarms, while most scientists are in favour of precautionary decision-making.

When regulatory bodies such as the MHRA have to balance patient well-being against the economic interests of industry, then a precautionary decision in favour of patient safety may be seen as having negative commercial impact.

The developed method can be used as a template for a stability assessment, and the results of this study provide a basis for exposure modeling and precautionary decision making.

Underlying many of the concerns in this survey is the issue of precautionary decision-making: the high stakes in volcanic eruptions necessitate precaution, but the history of volcanology also implies the need for caution in avoiding false alarms.

Highly definite views, expressed at the time by some scientists, are hard to justify given the large uncertainties in the evidence, and the official precautionary decision to evacuate, given the potential consequences of an explosive magmatic eruption, is not weakened by this hindcasting analysis.

The purpose of the study was to assess how well volcano observatory scientists think that the population around the volcano that they work on perceive the risk from that volcano, and whether this affects the scientists' own views about precautionary decision-making.