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The 64 pages that link to Precautionary principle, each with the reason it gives.

• Risk assessmentCompared with: It can guide action where an assessment cannot resolve uncertainty.

• Evidence-based policyCompared with: It can justify policy before conclusive evidence of harm or intervention effects exists.

• Risk managementCompared with: It can favor early precaution where conventional risk estimates are too uncertain to guide action.

• Environmental risk assessmentCompared with: It guides decisions under uncertainty, whereas assessment estimates risk from available evidence.

• Polluter pays principleCompared with: It addresses when to act under uncertainty, while polluter pays addresses who bears pollution costs.

• Responsible research and innovationCompared with: Precaution emphasizes risk control, whereas RRI also emphasizes participation, anticipation, and responsiveness.

• Technological utopianismCompared with: It favors caution where technological optimism would proceed on the expectation of eventual benefit.

• Effective accelerationismCompared with: Its emphasis on caution contrasts with e/acc’s preference for accelerating technological development.

• Risk analysisCompared with: It can guide action when risk analysis cannot confidently quantify uncertainty.

• Robert A. KehoeCompared with: It contrasts with waiting for definitive proof of harm before restricting a widely used chemical.

• Economic analysis of climate changeCompared with: It can favor early safeguards where conventional cost-benefit analysis discounts uncertain harms.