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Project Highlights
In 2001, the Lowell Center hosted the International Summit on Science and the Precautionary Principle, bringing together some 85 scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, and other environmental and health professionals from 17 countries to explore the relationship between science and the precautionary principle, and to develop a vision for scientific methods and policies that would more effectively support precautionary decision-making. An edited volume of presentations and discussions from the Summit, Precaution, Environmental Science, and Preventive Public Policy, has been published by Island Press. The Lowell Center has produced several articles on the precautionary principle for publication in peer-reviewed journals including Environmental Health Perspectives and The American Journal of Public Health. The US Department of Health and Human Services invited the Lowell Center to guest edit a special issue of its journal Public Health Reports on science, precaution, and public health, published in 2002.
The Lowell Center has provided technical support on the precautionary principle to the Austrian Ministry of Environment, Environment Canada, the Environmental Health Section of the Mexican Secretary of Health, the European Environment Agency, the European Union Joint Research Centers, and the World Health Organization, among others.
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