Thinking of Environmental Law as a Complex Adaptive System: How to Clean Up the Environment by Making a Mess of Environmental Law

Ruhl, J. B.

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Thinking of Environmental Law as a Complex Adaptive System: How to Clean Up the Environment by Making a Mess of Environmental Law

J. B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt University - Law School

March 5, 2009

Houston Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, 1997
FSU College of Law, Public Law Research

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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.

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Date posted: March 6, 2009

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Ruhl, J. B., Thinking of Environmental Law as a Complex Adaptive System: How to Clean Up the Environment by Making a Mess of Environmental Law (March 5, 2009). Houston Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, 1997; FSU College of Law, Public Law Research. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1354166

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