Inventing the future: Scenarios, imagination, mastery and control

Sustainability Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-177

  Brewer, Garry D ^a  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Games; Global climate change; Heuristics; Human dimensions and intentionality; Integrated assessments; Models; Organization and system control; Scenarios; Simulations; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748852630     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-007-0028-7     Document Type: Article

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