Forecasts and outcomes

Planning Theory and Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 429-442

  Skaburskis, Andrejs ^a   Teitz, Michael B ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; FORECASTING METHOD; PLANNING SYSTEM; POWER RELATIONS; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 0347995079     PISSN: 14649357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1464935032000146309     Document Type: Article

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