Understanding and resolving the global problematique: Assessing the balance between progressive and socially conservative foresight

Foresight

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 21-39

  Slaughter, Richard ^a   Riedy, Chris ^b  

^a Foresight International   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Futures markets; Social change

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350278637     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636680910994941     Document Type: Article

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