The Ethics of Precaution: Uncertain Environmental Health Threats and Duties of Due Care

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nList of Tables and Figures\nPreface\n1	Paradigm Shift in Risk and the Necessity of Precaution\n	1.1 Motivation Behind the Precautionary Principle\n	1.2 Paradigm Shift in Environmental Risk Management\n	1.3 Plan of the Book\n2 Precautionary Risk Regulation as a Matter of Right\n	2.1 Complexities of Environmental Harms\n	2.2 Contemporary Formulations and Common Objections\n	2.3 Efforts to Answer Common Objections\n		2.3.1 Precaution as Minimizing Harm\n		2.3.2 Precaution as Deliberative Policy Making\n	2.4 Alternative Rights-Based Formulation\n3 Uncertain Environmental Threats as Objective Wrongs\n	3.1 On the Association Between Obligation and Culpability\n	3.2 From Moral Equality to Duties of Due Care\n		3.2.1 A Kantian Commitment to Equality\n		3.2.2 Argument for Due Care in Brief\n	3.3 Uncertain Threats and Autonomous Standing\n	3.4 From Reasons to Duties\n4	Uncertain but Culpable\n	4.1 Moral Responsibility and Causal Responsibility\n	4.2 Ethics of Risk and Unreasonable Risk Impositions\n	4.3 Moral Luck and the Epistemic Limitation Excuse\n	4.4 Initial Objections\n5	Obligations of Due Care Under Uncertainty\n	5.1 When Risk can be Deduced\n	5.2 When Risk can be Scientifically Verified\n	5.3 When Risk Remains Unverifiable\n	5.4 Context-Dependent Mitigating Factors\n	5.5 Rejoinders to Standard Objections to Precaution\n6	Feasibility of a Precautionary Standard of Due Care\n	6.1 Tetraethyl Lead: A Brief History\n	6.2 “Intentional Externalizing” and the Orchestrated Failure to Protect Public Health\n	6.3 Motivating the Need for a Standard of Due Care\n	6.4 Exercising Due Care\n7 Demanding Higher Standards of Corporate Responsibility\n	7.1 Taking Responsibility for Uncertain Threats of Environmental Harm: An Overview\n	7.2 Recent Developments\n	7.3 Implications and Prospects for Future Research\nIndex