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Sustainable Development: A Five-Dimensional Algorithm For Environmental Law, J.B. Ruhl Jan 1999

Sustainable Development: A Five-Dimensional Algorithm For Environmental Law, J.B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

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.