Biodiversity and the Precautionary Principle : Risk, Uncertainty and Practice in Conservation and Sustainable Use (Paperback)

INTRODUCTION * From Promise to Practicalities: The Precautionary Principle in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use * Part I: THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE IN INTERNATIONAL REGIMES AND POLICY PROCESSES * Forest Policy, the Precautionary Principle and Sustainable Forest Management * The Precautionary Principle: Knowledge Counts but Power Decides? * The Precautionary Principle, Uncertainty and Trophy-Hunting: A Review of the Torghar Population of Central Asian Markhor Capra Falconeri * The Precautionary Principle in Impact Assessment: An International Review * Part II: NATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN APPLYING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE * The Evolution and Impact of Precautionary Fisheries Law and Policy in Australia: An Environmental NGO Perspective * Protection of Sea Turtles: Putting the Precautionary Principle into Practice * Application of the Precautionary Principle in Judicial and Administrative Decisions about Argentinian Biodiversity: A Case Study * Preventing Alien Invasions: The Precautionary Principle in Practice in Weed Risk Assessment in Australia * Part III: MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT UNCERTAIN THREATS: PRECAUTION, PROHIBITIONS AND ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT * Making the Precautionary Principle Work for Biodiversity: Avoiding Perverse Outcomes in Decision-making Under Uncertainty * Parrots, Precaution and Project El?: Management in the Face of Multiple Uncertainties * Precaution in the American Endangered Species Act as a Precursor to Environmental Decline: The Case of the Northwest Forest Plan * Part IV: THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE AND LOCAL LIVELIHOODS * People, Parks and Precaution: the Evolution of the Precautionary Principle in Wildlife Conservation in India * Managing Uganda's Forests in the Face of Uncertainty and Competing Demands: What is the Precautionary Approach? * The Precautionary Approach and Local Livelihoods: A Study of a Protected Landscape and Seascape in the Philippines * Part V: ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PRECAUTION * Economics, the Precautionary Principle and Natural Resource Management: Key Issues, Tools and Practices * Fairness and the Costs and Benefits of Precautionary Action * CONCLUSION * Precautionary Principle, Precautionary Practice: Lessons and Insights *