Accommodating or compromising change? A story about ambitions and historic deterministic scenarios

Futures

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 86-98

  van't Klooster, Susan A ^a   van Asselt, Marjolein B A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accommodating change; Foresight (in action); Futuristic difference; Historic determinism; Temporal repertoires

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

SIREN;

EID: 78650975094     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2010.10.015     Document Type: Article

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