Europe’s failure to renew a safe, beneficial herbicide is a clarion call to reassess the illegitimate, hazard-based precautionary principle.
Tag: Risk-based regulation
My Wishlist for the New Head of IARC
How to rebuild IARC after Chris Wild’s sudden departure.
The Two Paths to Policy
Policy-makers today need to choose between the risk-based or hazard-based route to policy management.
Getting lost with a bad compass: Precaution and pesticides
Using precaution as an impulse is like using a broken compass: you’ll never actually know how lost you are. Why precaution does not work for pesticides.
Risk Aversion and the Curse of Expediency
Expediency: the “art of making something go away” has become the main political virtue in Brussels. This has allowed contrapreneurs to win on issues.
Risk-based or Hazard-based Regulation
Risk School: Difference between risk-based and hazard -based regulation
