1. However one authority traces its use back to 1854 in the famous incident when John Snow removed the pump handle from a London well “curing” a cholera epidemic in the neighborhood. D. Gee Financial Times (London) U.S. ed. 2 16 December 1999 p. 14.
2. Vanderzwaag D., J. Environ. Law Pract.8, 2 (1999)See also www.ec.gc.ca/cepa/ip18/e18_00.html.
3. Freestone D., Hey E., Eds. Intl. Environ. Law Policy Ser31, (1996).
4. World Charter for Nature U.N. GA Resolution 37/7 (1982).
5. One wag has suggested that the Precautionary Principle should be applied (presumably in a strong form) to the use of the Precautionary Principle which would result in no action—a good or bad thing depending on one's point of view.