Community operational research : OR and systems thinking for community development / edited by Gerald Midgley and Alejandro Ochoa-Arias.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. An introduction to community operational research / Gerald Midgley and Alejandro E. Ochoa-Arias -- I. Early contributions and later reflections on theory, methodology and practice -- 2. Community operational research : its context and its future / Richard Parry and John Mingers -- 3. Community operational research : purposes, theory and practice / Michael C. Jackson -- 4. Visions of community for community OR / Gerald Midgley and Alejandro E. Ochoa-Arias -- II. Local action for community development -- 5. A black Ghetto's research on a university / Russell L. Ackoff -- 6. Housing in the Dearne Valley : doing community OR with the Thurnscoe tenants housing co-operative / Charles Ritchie -- 7. Looking forward with a council for voluntary service / Andy Marlow and Jim Bryant -- 8. Facilitation as fair intervention / Wendy J. Gregory and Norma Romm -- 9. Perspectives of engagement in community operational research / John Friend -- 10. Systemic intervention for community OR : developing services with young people (under 16) living on the streets / Alan Boyd, Mandy Brown and Gerald Midgley -- 11. Playing with PANDA : the cybOrg and the rhizome / Ann Taket and Leroy White -- III. Dealing locally with global issues -- 12. An interpretive systemic exploration of community action in Venezuela / Alejandro E. Ochoa-Arias -- 13. Community and environmental OR : towards a new agenda / Gerald Midgley and Martin Reynolds -- 14. Adaptive methodology for ecosystem sustainability and health (AMESH) : an introduction / David Waltner-Toews, James Kay, Tamsyn P. Murray and Cynthia Neudoerffer.

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