The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, expla

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Christian Munthe undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about. A novel theory

The "precautionary principle"—the idea that society should guard against potentially harmful activities even if some cause and effect relationships have not b