From forecasting and scenarios to social construction: Changing methodological paradigms in futures studies

Foresight

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 26-31

  Slaughter, Richard A ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Development; Forecasting; Scenario planning; Social accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442560303     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636680210697731     Document Type: Review

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