A methodology for organizing and quantifying the results of environmental scanning exercises

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 595-609

  Tonn, Bruce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental protection; Environmental scanning; Imprecise probabilities; Quantitative assessment

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECHNOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 44449132235     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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