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118 Arbitrariness can be understood as the presentation of an essentially cognitive selection as normative for purposes of reduction of complexity. Arbitrariness within environmental law is simply a matter of routinely systemic survival. The cardinal arbitrary selection is that of its ‘object’, which is also related to the third dimension in which expectations are fixed, the material dimension. The material dimension is the 116 Smith, 1994:1079; see also Richardson and Wood, 2006; for a critique of sustainable development in the ambits of integration, see Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, 2004b.
Luhmann, 1985a. Luhmann, 2004:149; see also Luhmann, 1993b:77–79, where he points to the correspondence between, on the one hand, normative expectations, normative closure and legal norms, and on the other, cognitive expectations, cognitive openness and legal facts. 115 Luhmann, 1989a. The law: autopoiesis and environmental law 31 expectations in society. 117 And while it is indeed the case that all law has to deal with conflicting interests by internalising their meaning and dealing with them through its own systemic legal structures, the difference is that conflicts in environmental law are not only external – in which case expectations apply – but also internal, that is between expectations.
1994. 83 Kelsen’s Pure Theory is one example as mentioned above; also Hart’s categorisation of legal rules or even the Habermasian discourse. See Cotterrell, 2001; Knodt, 1994. 84 Luhmann, 2004:67, 1993b:26. 85 Luhmann, 2004:65, 1993b:24, where he accepts that the kind of theory he proposes is not supposed to guide practice but only a description of the legal system as self-description. 24 Absent environments unbreachable, for otherwise the system would disintegrate. 86 With every selection, the form is repeated while distanced from the matter in hand.