Responding to the Millennium Project's energy challenge: A futurist's perspective

Journal of Futures Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 21-32

  Floyd, Joshua ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contradictory certainties; Efficiency; Energy demand; Energy use; Environmental benignity; Epistemological futures study; Eroi; Institutional development; Millennium project; Participatory process; Peak oil; Rebound effect; Resilience; State of the future; Sufficiency; Unconventional gas; World energy outlook

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864090042     PISSN: 10276084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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