Precaution

The beginning of Prevention and the Precaution, where the certainty or the unfamiliarity how much to the generated ambient impacts they infer values of not use to the natural resources, affecting the cost of the corporative operations. The beginning of the Paying Polluting agent it attributes to the polluting agent the responsibility of the compensation for the actual damage. In other words, these principles infer to the corporations the costs related with not the use of the environment and to the repairing of the ambient damage. It fits to point out that before the repairing, these principles mainly objectify to prevent the ambient damage. For ANGUITA & WAGNER (2010) the word value has many meanings. ANGUITA & WAGNER (2010 L. 319-20) Apud.

BROWN (1984 defines) it as ' ' a lasting one and conception preferable that it influences a choice ao' ' free translation. The author clarifies that the preferable term is used to define a choice of something for an individual in relation to a notion of improvement, or a classification between optimum and worse. The author still places that two relative preferential forms of value exist: a functional or mathematical value; a related functional value. The related functional value mentions a biological or physical relation to it of an entity not human being for another one, for example, the value of nitrogen for the maize production, and clarifies, still, that the determination of these functional values fits to the studies of Applied Sciences, given its complexity. The above-mentioned author also illustrates that from a economic perspective, the value can be understood as a relative importance, or value of an object for an individual or group of individuals in one determined context. This value is measured or determined regarding to preconceived values, and its preferences associates, that is, the relation of the perception on the object in comparison with all the other considered objects excellent, taking itself in account, still, the context where this evaluation if carries through.