Early detection, warnings, weak signals and seeds of change: A turbulent domain of futures studies

Futures

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 229-239

  Rossel, Pierre ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; RESEARCH; SIGNAL;

EID: 84857645456     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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