"The precautionary principle is proving of unusual significance as new forms of biotechnology and chemical synthesis offer tantalizing contradictions as to any proof of associated harm for all manner of exposed populations now and in the course of the long time. This is even more politically salient as fresh trade agreements are being sought between nations with many differing interpretations of precaution. Levente Szentkirályi offers a brilliant, case study rich, analysis of a new moral position of a reasoned duty of care on all creators of possible risks, both established and still untried. Would that his prescriptions be followed."-- Tim O'Riordan is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK and the editor of two books on the precautionary principle across the world. "In The Ethics of Precaution, Dr. Szentkirályi offers perhaps the most complete and compelling moral philosophical defense available for use of the precautionary principle in environmental, health, and safety regulation. But the book does much more than this: It also engages with law, history, economics, environmental science, and a range of other relevant bodies of expertise to advance its argument.

The result is a powerful philosophical case for the precautionary principle and an exemplary work of interdisciplinary scholarship." -- Douglas Kysar, Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale University, and author of Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity.