New Delhi: Given the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is “nowhere near over”. India is no exception here. For the past ...

The concept of risk has had quite an impressive run in the last decade. The word ‘risk’ has found its way into the vocabulary of every field, spanning from politics, to economics, education and even ...

Which is more important in the initial phase of a pandemic: taking precautionary actions or responding to its severity? That is the question that researchers from the Singapore University of ...

Precautionary approaches to governance of emerging technology, which call for constraints on the use of technology whose potential harms and other outcomes are highly uncertain, are often criticized ...

Precaution is arguably one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented issues in the global politics of science and technology. Misunderstood, because precaution is so often wrongly asserted to be ...

Which is more important in the initial phase of a pandemic: taking precautionary actions or responding to its severity? That is the question that researchers from SUTD set out to address in an article ...