Paper's abstract

Corinne & Madeleine Babès Lepage, Geography Of Precaution And Its Local And National Applications
For several years now, the precautionary principle has been gaining momentum and has seen its contours being shaped and defined, both at the international and European or French levels. Nevertheless, it does not have the same importance, depending on the scale at which one places oneself, and tends to be confused with the principle of prevention, two notions that are nevertheless totally distinct.
More than ever before, issues of climate, biodiversity, social justice, management of public funds, and the development and management of resources are at the heart of the problems managed by the territories and, in particular, by the municipalities, the first territorial level of decision-making. The precautionary principle, which pervades all of these matters, is being reduced in France, notably by a self-centered jurisprudence that prefers to give pride of place to Franco-French questions of territorial organization, rather than applying a principle that is becoming universal, thus favoring the inertia of the central State rather than local action. A situation that could not be allowed to continue any longer.


Key Words : revention - GMOs - Linky - pesticides - glyphosate - policing power
t. 62, 2020 : p. 239-254

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