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Ethics, Policy & Environment Volume 22, 2019 - Issue 1: New Directions for the Precautionary Principle, Guest Edited by Sune Holm and Daniel Steel
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Deciding in the Dark: The Precautionary Principle and the Regulation of Synthetic Biology

Sune HolmPhilosophy Section, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 61-71 | Published online: 22 Feb 2019

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