Scenarios for Australia in 2050: A synthesis and proposed survey

Journal of Futures Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 49-76

  Costanza, Robert ^a   Kubiszewski, Ida ^a   Cork, Steve ^a   Atkins, Paul W B ^a   Bean, Alexandra ^a   Diamond, Alexis ^a   Grigg, Nicola ^b   Korb, Emily ^a   Logg Scarvell, Jasmin ^a   Navis, Rajkumari ^a   Patrick, Kimberley ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archetypes; Public opinion survey; Scenario planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930239002     PISSN: 10276084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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