The precautionary principle (Caroline Aeberli) The precautionary principle is a way of dealing with scientific uncertainty, based on available scientific knowledge, the degree of uncertainty and societal values (e.g. legal or political assessments).
"In a way, this system is a way of dealing with the principles of evolution as it pertains to professional sports.
That is, the social practice of dealing with the principles in a specific way in biomedical ethics (e.g., as instruments to teach ethics to students and health professionals) may at least to some degree foster or erode the foundation of the principles in common morality.
Leslie welcomed the principle of increasing pay as the best way of dealing with rising welfare.
This mechanism could be used by future research consortia, and may also assist in the development of sound principles for dealing with CSFs.
Nevertheless, Thagard reports the existence of computational methods for converting constraint satisfaction problems whose constraints involve more than two elements into problems that involve only binary constraints, concluding that his characterization of coherence "suffices in principle for dealing with more complex coherence problems with nonbinary constraints" (Thagard 2000, 19).
After a two-year investigation, the price reporting agencies last fall agreed to adopt a series of principles to deal with conflicts of interests and other issues.
The pioneers and prominent proponents of global health ethics, Benatar, Daar, and Singer (3), argue that before a new global mindset can be addressed a common set of principles to deal with global health threats must be agreed.
Municipal governments are adopting smart-growth principles to deal with forms and patterns of urban development that planners and organizations have deemed unsustainable (Downs, 2005; Song, 2005).
Components of agricultural ecosystems will inevitably evolve in response to these trends, thus suggesting a central role for the application of evolutionary principles in dealing with the consequences of these changes (Thompson 2005).
