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Consenting Marine Discharges
Author(s) -
Edwards A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.2001.tb00319.x
Subject(s) - precautionary principle , flexibility (engineering) , legislation , adaptation (eye) , environmental planning , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental resource management , business , computer science , law and economics , environmental science , environmental economics , law , political science , ecology , economics , management , biology , neuroscience
Regulation of man's interaction with the environment steers a course between the opposing, but complementary, concepts of the‘precautionary principle’and‘environmental capacity'. In simple and restricted interactions, deterministic science allows the estimation of‘environmental capacity', whereas in more complex interactions the‘precautionary principle’is likely to apply. The importance of far‐field effects is increasing, and the wider costs of regulation are becoming more recognised. This paper includes example of marine legislation and regulatory procedures from the Control of Pollution Act 1974 and various European directives but, whatever the details, there is a need for flexibility and adaptation to changing knowledge, laws and monitoring results.