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Precautionary Principle for Ocean Governance
- "Consider the most sensible path ahead for ocean governance, and a new principle readily suggests itself. The precautionary ideal embraces a more integrative and conservationist perspective -- something wiser than traditionally divisive boundaries like a three- or twelve-mile jurisdictional limit. Not surprisingly, then, this new thinking is increasingly cited in international accords, since it is an attractive means to improve marine policy. At its heart, the principle is based on the conviction that it is no longer valid to assume that the sea has a vast capacity to absorb a variety of harms." - excerpt from the book, Listening to the Sea, by Robert Jay Wilder, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998, pg. 143.
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