Community operational research :  OR and systems thinking for community development / 
edited by Gerald Midgley and Alejandro Ochoa-Arias. 
 - viii, 366 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - Contemporary systems thinking .
 - Contemporary systems thinking. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> An introduction to community operational research /  Early contributions and later reflections on theory, methodology and practice --  Community operational research : its context and its future /  Community operational research : purposes, theory and practice /  Visions of community for community OR /  Local action for community development --  A black Ghetto's research on a university /  Housing in the Dearne Valley : doing community OR with the Thurnscoe tenants housing co-operative /  Looking forward with a council for voluntary service /  Facilitation as fair intervention /  Perspectives of engagement in community operational research /  Systemic intervention for community OR : developing services with young people (under 16) living on the streets /  Playing with PANDA : the cybOrg and the rhizome /  Dealing locally with global issues --  An interpretive systemic exploration of community action in Venezuela /  Community and environmental OR : towards a new agenda /  Adaptive methodology for ecosystem sustainability and health (AMESH) : an introduction /  Gerald Midgley and Alejandro E. Ochoa-Arias --  Richard Parry and John Mingers --  Michael C. Jackson --  Gerald Midgley and Alejandro E. Ochoa-Arias --  Russell L. Ackoff --  Charles Ritchie --  Andy Marlow and Jim Bryant --  Wendy J. Gregory and Norma Romm --  John Friend --  Alan Boyd, Mandy Brown and Gerald Midgley --  Ann Taket and Leroy White --  Alejandro E. Ochoa-Arias --  Gerald Midgley and Martin Reynolds --  David Waltner-Toews, James Kay, Tamsyn P. Murray and Cynthia Neudoerffer.  1.  I.  2.  3.  4.  II.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  III.  12.  13.  14. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0306483351 9780306483356 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003070329 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Community development<br/>Operations research.<br/>System analysis
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN49.C6  / C673 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.14