Contingency planning/Definition

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Contingency planning [r]:

Preparing a set of decisions for action under conditions of high uncertainty, or where there are large numbers of unknown factors (including unknowns that cannot be identified) . E.g., planning by hospitals for possible pandemics such as Covid19 and other possible epidemics are classic examples of contingency planning.