1.10 Precautionary principles and errors in interpretations
Precaution has become a guiding goal for decision-making in a framework of
ecological sustainability (see Cameron & Abouchard, 1991; Wynne, 1992). Despite different views by lawyers, managers and scientists on what precautionary
several large patches. The remaining areas are finer sediments. There are sufficient
model can be proposed that predation or disturbance by the rays decreases
the number of amphipods. This leads to the hypothesis that areas where rays
are experimentally prevented from entering will develop larger numbers of
amphipods than in corresponding control areas.