| 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。) |
