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Introducing Stories Into Downward Counterfactual Analysis: Examples From a Potential Mediterranean Disaster

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Introducing Stories Into Downward Counterfactual Analysis: Examples From a Potential Mediterranean Disaster
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How to recognise potential disasters is a question at the centre of risk analysis. Over-reliance on an incomplete, often epistemologically-biased, historical record, and a focus on quantified and quantifiable risks, have contributed to unanticipated disasters dominating both casualties and financial losses in the first part of the 21st century. Here we present the findings of an online workshop implementing a new scenario-planning method, called downward counterfactual analysis, which is desi...

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Journal article
Date created
2022
Creator
Walshe R / Baker H / van Soest H / Dryhurst S / Taylor ARE / Penney, Camilla
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https://hdl.handle.net/10092/103745
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risk analysis / downward counterfactual / disasters / Eastern Mediterranean / earthquake / tsunami / Black Swan / uncertainty / Earth sciences / Physical geography and environmental geoscience / Natural hazards / Engineering / Engineering practice and education / Risk engineering / Human society / Development studies / Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding / Environmental engineering / Health and ecological risk assessment

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