Sentences with phrase «take precautionary action»

Grothmann, T. and Reusswig F. (2006), People at Risk of Flooding: Why Some Residents Take Precautionary Action While Others do not.

Any major slip - up or failure to take precautionary action can result in disaster for the scam.

Some scientists can readily accept that the people, in a democracy, have the ultimate right to decide whether we should take precautionary action, or whether the risk of doing nothing about global warming is an «acceptable risk».

Government sources admit they have no reason to believe toddlers are being indoctrinated in extremism, but are taking precautionary action, following revelations about radicalisation in Birmingham schools.

This suggests that people may be more likely to evacuate or take precautionary actions if one of the lines in an ensemble overlaps with their own town, but feel relatively safe if not.

The second generation of the emergency assist the system takes precautionary actions and merges the ACC (Adaptive cruise control), Side assist, Lane assist and Park assist into one system.

Not exact matches

European countries and environmentalists argued for incorporation of the «precautionary approach,» which says that it may be necessary to take action even when the scientific evidence is incomplete.

This page contains helpful precautionary actions owners can take to help aid in the speedy return of their pets should they ever find themselves away from home.

Note that, even if the situation turns out not be quite so dire, action should be taken on the precautionary principle; see Douglas's comment # 33.

Following from # 57: John Nissen: Note that, even if the situation turns out not be quite so dire, action should be taken on the precautionary principle; see Douglas's comment # 33.

The biggest flaw in the neocon approach is the hypocrisy of applying the precautionary principle to spend trillions of dollars responding to «best available» military intelligence, but posturing to insist on 110 % certainty when it comes to taking action to avert possible environmental threats.

Her words on our response to climate change are as wise and as relevant today as they were in 1990: «Many of the precautionary actions that we need to take would be sensible in any event.»

We are unwise if we draw from Sunstein's work that the principle (over a dozen distinct precautionary principles are extant, dependent on situation) is wrong, just because it can sometimes lead to wrong outcomes in situations where there is no good way to predict what action to take.

The precautionary principle, as I've outlined it, shows the problems you have when you have misdiagnosed something benign as a threat, and then take actions that are more harmful than the status quo.

The Precautionary Principle decrees that we should NOT take actions which would kill billions of people on the basis of a hypothesis which has no supporting evidence and merely because it has been described using computer games.

-LSB-...] the way to pitch the analysis is to argue that precautionary action must be taken now to protect reserves etc against the inevitable

Under the precautionary principle agreed in the climate change convention, nations promised not to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking cost - effective action.

Recognizing that «the balance of scientific evidence suggests a link between climate change and human activity,» Herkströter felt Shell had «a responsibility to take prudent precautionary action.»

Neither the science nor the precautionary principal can tell you what particular action to take.

Their advice — as we have only one planet — in the unlikely case that climate is uncertain — requires that unspecified precautionary action be taken to mitigate greenhouse gases.

People need to realize that the real precautionary principle needs to take into account the risk that there will be no global action.

From the legal perspective, some people define economic - based crime to be an act of abstention from pursuing an action that will result in harm to the economic policy or the economic security of the country, committed by a person eligible for taking the criminal responsibility; such an act is prohibited by law and for which the law has prescribed a penalty or precautionary measures.