Science for the post-normal age

1993/09/01 by Silvio O. Funtowicz, Silvio Funtowicz, Jerome R. Ravetz · 4,217 citations
Social Sciences · #Business #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Computer science #Democracy #Democratization #Economics #Epistemology #Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems #Law #Management science #Marketing #Modernity #Normal science #Policy Sciences #Political science #Process (computing) #Public administration #Quality (philosophy) #Quality assurance #Risk Perception and Management #Science policy #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1016/0016-3287(93)90022-l

published in Futures 25(7), 739-755 (Elsevier BV)

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