Imagining sustainability: The added value of transition scenarios in transition management

Foresight

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 15-30

  Sondeijker, Saartje ^a   Geurts, Jac ^b   Rotmans, Jan ^a   Tukker, Arnold ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Sustainable development; Transition management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748761165     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636680610703063     Document Type: Article

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