Environmental risk and the precautionary principle. "Late lessons from early warnings" applied to genetically modified plants
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Keywords
Environmental risk; precautionary principle; Bayesian analysis; genetically modified organisms.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
- Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2005-02-13 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2005-02-13 (Environmental Economics)
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