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possibilistic thinking: a standalone construct

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Crisis management

reasoning about what could happen in extreme events, including worst cases, rather than only about what is probable.

In crisis management, possibilistic thinking refers to reasoning about what could happen in extreme events, including worst cases, rather than only about what is probable. This meaning comes from Clarke (2008) in Social Research: An International Quarterly.[1]

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References

  1. Clarke, L. (2008). Possibilistic Thinking: A New Conceptual Tool for Thinking about Extreme Events. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 75(3), 669-690. https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0013

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