Contingency

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Contingency. / Knöbl, Wolfgang.

Critical Terms in Futures Studies. ed. / Heike Paul. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. p. 53-59.

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Harvard

Knöbl, W 2019, Contingency. in H Paul (ed.), Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 53-59. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_9

APA

Knöbl, W. (2019). Contingency. In H. Paul (Ed.), Critical Terms in Futures Studies (pp. 53-59). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_9

Vancouver

Knöbl W. Contingency. In Paul H, editor, Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. p. 53-59 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_9

Bibtex

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