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| cause for concern principle Principle connected with the precautionary principle: it means that, if there are strong reasons for expecting serious or irreversible damage to the environment following a given project, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. Critics of this approach are concerned about large commitments of resources to deal with vaguely defined problems | 预防原则 (与预防原则相联系的原则：这意味着，如果有充足的理由来预见到在某个工程之后对环境有严重的或不可逆的损害，缺乏充分的科学依据肯定不应作为推迟防止环境退化的有效措施的理由。对这种方法的批评主要在于投入了大量的资源来处理未确定的问题。) |
| community-pays principle A tenet of environmental policy, according to which the costs of ecological challenges, environmental quality improvements and the removal of environmental hazards are allotted to community groups or local corporations and, thereby, to the general public | 共同体支付原则 (依据生态的挑战、环境品质的改善，和环境有害物质的去除等成本，专款拨给社区组织或当地政府，并借此拨给一般民众的环境政策原则。) |
| co-operation principle | 合作原则 |
| Le Chatelier principle | 勒夏特利埃氏原理 |
| polluter-pays principle The principle that those causing pollution should meet the costs to which it gives rise | 污染者支付原则 (原则，由造成污染的一方来负责承担清除污染的责任。) |
| polluter-pays principle | 污染者-赔偿原则 |
| polluter-pays principle | 污染者付款原则简写为PPP |
| precautionary principle Principle adopted by the UN Conference on Environment and Development (1992) that in order to protect the environment, a precautionary approach should be widely applied, meaning that where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage to the environment, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation | 预防原则 (该原则在环境与发展(1992年)联合国会议上被采纳，为了保护环境，预防方法应得到广泛的应用。这意味着，如果有严重的或不可逆转的环境损害发生时，我们不能将缺乏足够的科学依据作为推迟对环境保护采取措施的借口。) |
| principle of sustainability Principle stated by the World Commission on Environment and Development (The Bruntland Commission) in 1987: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations. Sustainable development is a process of integrating economic, social and ecological goals, and should not mean a trade-off between the environment and development. Sustainable development should imply balance rather than conflict | 可持续发展准则 (布伦特兰委员会 在1987年制定的准则：发展必须符合当代人的需求又不损害子孙后代的需要。可持续发展是一个融合经济、社会和生态目标的进程，而不应意味着环境和发展之间的妥协。可持续发展应意味着平衡，而不是冲突。) |
| subsidiary principle The fundamental doctrine or tenet that policy making decisions should be made at the most decentralized level, in which a centralized governing body would not take action unless it it is more effective than action taken at a lower government level | 辅助原则 (最根本的原则或宗旨，决策的决定应在最分散的水平，其中一个集中的管理机构将不采取行动，除非它是在一个较低的多级政府才会采取较有效的行动。) |
| trinity of principles trias of environmental policy principles: precautionary, originator (polluter-pays) and cooperation principle; Three fundamental principles of environmental policy: precautionary principle, polluter pays-principle and cooperation principle | 三位一体的原则 (环境政策的三个基本原则：预报原则、污染者付费原则和合作原则。) |
