Feral futures: Zen and aesthetics

Futures

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 478-487

  Ramírez, Rafael ^a   Ravetz, Jerome ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTHETICS; FUTURE PROSPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953192470     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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