%0 Journal Article
%T Precautionary Principle vs Formal Decision: Making Criteria
%A Malinowski, Grzegorz M.
%J Public Management
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/20843968ZP.20.007.13395
%N Issue 3 (51)
%P 83-102
%K precautionary principle, uncertainty, scientific uncertainty, decision theory, heuristics
%@ 1896-0200
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zarzadzanie-publiczne/article/zasada-ostroznosci-a-klasyczne-reguly-decyzyjne
%X 
	Precautionary principle (PP) is commonly understood as a criterion that should be used in decision-making under risk and/or uncertainty. Yet, long before the approval of PP in the literature – a set of concrete, formal criterions existed in the field of decision theory. Therefore the main goal of this paper is to compare these classical decision – rules with PP. This very comparison will bring us to answer the question: if PP may be reduced to any of the classical criterions? It will tur out that such a reduction cannot be done. Therefore PP has got its own specificity. 

	JEL: D01, D81, G18, H12, I18