Protection of the Environment: From Ethics to Genetics

Abstract

Much has been achieved in recent years in attempting to develop a more comprehensive and internally consistent means of protecting the environment with respect to ionising radiation. This has involved an examination of some basic ethical issues, how these may or may not relate to basic principles of environmental protection, and how these in turn interface with different means of environmental management. The further development of such a framework, however, is likely to require some detailed discussion of some of our basic understanding and interpretation of radiation effects in a broader context than has been achieved in the past.