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General Morphological Analysis (GMA) was developed at the Swedish Defence Research Agency during the 1990s as a method for treating what have been termed wicked problems and social messes. This chapter gives a background to how and why GMA was developed and applied, first to post-Cold War defence planning and, subsequently, to social and organisation planning processes in general.
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Ritchey, T. (2011). Introduction. In: Wicked Problems – Social Messes. Risk, Governance and Society, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19653-9_1
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