英语词汇“precautionary principle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

precautionary principle n. (originally and chiefly in environmental contexts) the principle that if the (long-term) consequences of an action are unknown, but have the potential to be harmful, the action should be avoided.

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1982 University of Chicago Law Rev. Spring 369 The precautionary principle was meant to serve the ‘interest of industry’; its aim was ‘to avoid later having to forbid the construction of new industrial undertakings’ because of the existing burden of pollution.

1988 Financial Times 18 July (Survey section) p.i/8 It [sc. Greenpeace] is keeping an eye on the British Government to make sure that there is no backsliding from its undertaking to adopt the precautionary principle.

2003 New Internationalist Jan. 15/3 The Cartagena Protocol says the precautionary principle should be used, and that therefore genetically engineered maize is to be considered risky unless it has been proven not to be so.

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