The Precautionary Principle: a Political Economy Approach

This essay evaluates the precautionary principle in the context of political economy and environmental regulation. Even though sustainability and precautionary principle are not well defined as a stable concept or a principle due to the status quo of political power that supersedes. Yet, the future of precautionary principle looks promising if the understanding of the concept is advocated to establish the influence it deserves. Within this essay, there will be a review on the theories of sustainability, the origin of precautionary principle, implementation of the principle in international treaties and agreements, various versions of the principle formulated in these historical examples and in addition evaluate how sustainability and precautionary principle are interwoven. This record was migrated from the OpenDepot repository service in June, 2017 before shutting down.