Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Houston Law Review
Publication Date
1997
ISSN
0018-6694
Page Number
933
Keywords
environmental law, complexity, adaptive systems
Disciplines
Environmental Law | Law
Abstract
This article is the fourth in my series of articles exploring the application of complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory to legal systems. It applies the model built in the three prior installments (in the Duke, Vanderbilt, and UC-Davis law reviews) to the specific context of environmental law. The work describes the subject matter of environmental law as a CAS and explains why environmental law thus must "think like a complex adaptive system" in order to accomplish its objectives.
Recommended Citation
J.B. Ruhl,
Thinking of Environmental Law as a Complex Adaptive System: How to Clean Up the Environment by Making a Mess of Environmental Law, 34 Houston Law Review. 933
(1997)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/526