A critical review of the application of environmental scenario exercises

Futures

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 176-186

  Wodak, Josh ^a,c   Neale, Timothy ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c BUSHFIRE AND NATURAL HAZARDS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental scenarios; Literature review; Natural hazards; Scenario exercises

Indexed keywords

NATURAL HAZARD; PLANNING METHOD; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84945928133     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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