conditions vary widely
interactions are important
lack of past experience
policy decisions need to be made
corporations stress uncertainties to avoid regulation

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Donald Ludwig, Ray Hilborn and Carl Walters, Uncertainty, resource exploitation, and conservation: lessons from history, Science, v260 n5104, April 2, 1993, pp. 17-8.

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