The Ethics of Precaution

Uncertain Environmental Health Threats and Duties of Due Care
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08464-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

There are thousands of substances manufactured in the United States to which the public is routinely exposed and for which toxicity data are limited or absent. Some insist that uncertainty about the severity of potential harm justifies implementing precautionary regulations, while others claim that uncertainty justifies the absence of regulations until sufficient evidence confirms a strong probability of severe harm.

In this book, Levente Szentkirályi overcomes this impasse in his defense of precautionary environmental risk regulation by shifting the focus from how to manage uncertainty to what it is we owe each other morally. He argues that actions that create uncertain threats wrongfully gamble with the welfare of those who are exposed and neglect the reciprocity that our equal moral standing demands. If we take the moral equality and rights of others seriously, we have a duty to exercise due care to strive to prevent putting them in possible harm’s way.

The Ethics of Precaution will be of great interest to researchers, educators, advanced students, and practitioners working in the fields of environmental political theory, ethics of risk, and environmental policy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szentkirályi, Levente

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Umweltmedizin, Arbeitsmedizin, Tropenmedizin, Sportmedizin Umweltmedizin
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Paradigm Shift in Risk and the Enduring Necessity of Precaution 1. Precautionary Risk Regulation as a Matter of Right 2. Uncertain Environmental Threats as Objective Wrongs 3. Uncertain But Culpable 4. Obligations of Due Care Under Uncertainty 5. The Feasibility of a Precautionary Standard of Due Care Conclusion: Demanding Higher Standards of Corporate Responsibility

Über Autor(innen)

Levente Szentkirályi is a teaching faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches discipline-specific academic writing and problems of social justice. Broadly trained in political science and philosophy, his interdisciplinary research interests bridge normative political theory with environmental policy and broadly consist in environmental justice, moral responsibility, and the ethics of risk. Dr. Szentkirályi’s appreciation for scholarship that intersects different disciplines has deeply influenced his student-centered pedagogy and has shaped substantive research interests in teaching and learning in political science.