Complexity and transition management

Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 177-197

  Rotmans, Jan ^a   Loorbach, Derk ^b   Kemp, René ^c,d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNU MERIT   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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