Usually means: Adapting culture to environmental potential.
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  1. possibilism: Merriam-Webster
  2. possibilism: Collins English Dictionary
  3. possibilism: Wiktionary
  4. Possibilism (French Socialist), Possibilism (geography), Possibilism (philosophy), Possibilism (politics), Possibilism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (possibilism)

noun:  (philosophy) The belief that possible things exist, as well as actual things.
noun:  The theory that the geographical environment sets certain constraints, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.
noun:  An approach that pragmatically focuses on achievable goals rather than impossible ideals.
noun:  (sometimes derogatory) Any of various socialist reform movements.

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