A review of urban energy system models: Approaches, challenges and opportunities

J Keirstead, M Jennings, A Sivakumar - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2012 - Elsevier
Energy use in cities has attracted significant research in recent years. However such a broad
topic inevitably results in number of alternative interpretations of the problem domain and …

Social indicators

KC Land - Annual review of sociology, 1983 - annualreviews.org
This paper reviews the development of the field of social indicators from its origins in the
1960s to the present. Three classes of social indicators are identified: normative welfare …

[BOOK][B] Principles of forecasting: a handbook for researchers and practitioners

JS Armstrong - 2001 - Springer
Principles of Forecasting: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners summarizes
knowledge from experts and from empirical studies. It provides guidelines that can be …

Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie?

B Flyvbjerg, MS Holm, S Buhl - Journal of the American planning …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents results from the first statistically significant study of cost escalation in
transportation infrastructure projects. Based on a sample of 258 transportation infrastructure …

Learning by knowledge‐intensive firms

WH Starbuck - Journal of management Studies, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
We had no idea what a strange but memorable experience this would be! The General
Manager proposed that we start with a tour of their largest plant, and assigned someone to …

[BOOK][B] Party policy in modern democracies

K Benoit, M Laver - 2006 - api.taylorfrancis.com
A new and wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies,
including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe. It updates and radically extends …

[BOOK][B] Academic strategy: The management revolution in American higher education

G Keller - 1983 - books.google.com
Alone among America's major institutions, colleges and universities have traditional refused
to adopt modern management and planning. Now they have entered a perilous new era of …

[BOOK][B] Public policy analysis: An integrated approach

WN Dunn - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides readers with a
comprehensive methodology of public policy analysis. Starting from the premise that policy …

[BOOK][B] Forecasting and management of technology

AL Porter - 1991 - books.google.com
Forecasting and Management of Technology discusses the planning, operation, analysis
and control of complex technological systems and new technology. The book covers the …

An evaluation of Delphi

F Woudenberg - Technological forecasting and social change, 1991 - Elsevier
The literature concerning quantitative applications of the Delphi method is reviewed. No
evidence was found to support the view that Delphi is more accurate than other judgment …