Download This PaperSustainable Development: A Five-Dimensional Algorithm for Environmental Law
34 Pages Posted: 27 Mar 2009
Date Written: March 26, 2009
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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J. B. Ruhl (Contact Author)
Vanderbilt University - Law School ( email )
131 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203-1181
United States
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