Late Lessons From Early Warnings about Hazards: why evidence gets ignored
Speaker(s): David Gee and Jouni Paavola
6 Nov 2012 at University of Leeds
Part of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy’s 2012-2013 Public Lecture Series: Autumn lecture (part of the ESRC’s Festival Of Social Science) If one looks at history, there has often been sufficient science to justify precautionary actions to reduce or eliminate harm from hazardous agents, decades before effective regulatory actions were eventually taken. […]