Practical Applications

Abstract

We have now reached the point of inquiry where it is time to relate the various theoretical lines of reasoning presented in earlier chapters to actual practices of making risky decisions. In particular, we need to reconsider the issue about what PP should amount to in actual political decision making regarding environmental action and the use and introduction of technology. In doing this, I will proceed in a sort of ‘down-top’ order, starting with the issue of what the theory developed in the preceding chapter might say about a number of particular activities in isolation from the issue of policy. After this, the discussion will move on to the primary policy level and discuss what my theory implies regarding PP and its implementation within the political and regulative systems of a nation. As a final, I will then conclude by considering a number of implications on a more overarching global and long-term level of policy making.