TY  - BOOK
AU  - Midgley,Gerald
AU  - Ochoa-Arias,Alejandro
TI  - Community operational research: OR and systems thinking for community development 
T2  - Contemporary systems thinking
SN  - 0306483351
AV  - HN49.C6 C673 2004
U1  - 307.14 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
KW  - Community development
KW  - Operations research
KW  - System analysis
N1  - 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
ER  -