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Community Operational Research

Or and Systems Thinking for Community Development

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Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development sets out the current concerns of Community Operational Research (Community OR for short) and explores new possibilities for its continued development. Leading Community OR writers, with international reputations in operational research and systems thinking, have contributed chapters that illuminate different aspects of Community OR theory and practice. There is a focus on the value of systems approaches, and other significant perspectives are also represented. The result is a rich mix of theories, methodologies and case studies that will be a significant resource for both practitioners and academics engaged in community development.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An Introduction to Community Operational Research. - I Early Contributions and Later Reflections on Theory, Methodology and Practice. - 2. Community Operational Research: Its Context and its Future. - 3. Community Operational Research: Purposes, Theory and Practice. - 4. Visions of Community for Community OR 75. - II Local Action for Community Development. - 5. A Black Ghetto s Research on a University. - 6. Housing in the Dearne Valley: Doing Community OR with the Thurnscoe Tenants Housing Co-operative. - 7. Looking Forward with a Council for Voluntary Service. - 8. Facilitation as Fair Intervention. - 9. Perspectives of Engagement in Community Operational Research. - 10. Systemic Intervention for Community OR: Developing Services with Young People (Under 16) Living on the Streets. - 11. Playing with PANDA: the CybOrg and the Rhizome. - III Dealing Locally with Global Issues. - 12. An Interpretive Systemic Exploration of Community Action in Venezuela. - 13. Community and Environmental OR: Towards a New Agenda. - 14. Adaptive Methodology for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health (AMESH): An Introduction.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
15. Juni 2004
Sprache
englisch
Auflage
2004 edition
Seitenanzahl
366
Reihe
Contemporary Systems Thinking
Herausgegeben von
Gerald Midgley, Alejandro Ochoa-Arias
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
gebunden
Abbildungen
VIII, 366 p.
Gewicht
767 g
Größe (L/B/H)
224/145/29 mm
ISBN
9780306483356

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From the reviews:

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This is the book I have been waiting for.
Community OperationalResearch
has shown that analysis can be used not only for, but also with, community groups, helping them to gain more control of their situations. What Midgley and Ochoa-Arias' volume does is provide not only rich examples of grass-roots practice, but also thought-provoking theoretical explorations. The editors have a point of view, but they allow space for debate with those who interpret Community OR differently.
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Jonathan Rosenhead (Emeritus Professor of Operational Research, LondonSchool of Economics and Political Science; Ex-President of theOperational Research Society)
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. . . What the many authors in this book have in common is a commitment to serve the interests of all those affected by a community' s behavior - its stakeholders. This is acquiring a new significance as we decreasingly conceptualize corporations and organizations in general as organisms, and begin to think of them, as Charles Handy has, as communities.
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Russell Ackoff (Professor Emeritus of the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania; Ex-President of ORSA; Vice President ofTIMS)

" The authors/editors have made a worthwhile contribution to the scant literature in a growing field. In particular, they should be commended for presenting illustrations of community projects in developing countries. this book attests to the growing application of OR methods to community development . I commend the authors for their effort. " (JP van Gigch, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 58 (3), 2007)

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