J.B. Ruhl

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Stanford Environmental Law Journal

Publication Date

1999

ISSN

0892-7138

Page Number

31

Keywords

environmental law, sustainable development, adaptive systems theory

Disciplines

Environmental Law | Law

Abstract

This article describes sustainable development as involving five dimensions: environment, economy, equity, time, and space (or scale). I suggest that the complexity inherent in balancing these five dimensions demand algorithmic approaches like those being explored in complex adaptive systems theory.

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