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Community and Environmental OR: Towards a New Agenda

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Community Operational Research

Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking ((CST))

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In 1999, the UK-based Operational Research Society granted charitable funding to a systemic intervention project, based in the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, designed to create an agenda for the future role of operational research (OR) in environmental planning and management. Our final report on the project was published in 2001. This chapter summarises our findings, then focuses in detail on one aspect of these: the outputs from a mini-conference held with OR practi-tioners who participated in developing the agenda.

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  1. Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) Ltd., Christchurch Science Centre, 27 Creyke Road, PO Box 29-181, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Gerald Midgley

  2. Centre for Systems Studies, Business School, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

    Gerald Midgley

  3. Centre for Complexity and Change, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Martin Reynolds

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  1. Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR Ltd), Christchurch, New Zealand

    Gerald Midgley

  2. Centre for Systems Studies, Business School University of Hull, Hull, UK

    Gerald Midgley

  3. Universidad de Los Andes, Marida, Venezuela

    Alejandro Ochoa-Arias

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Midgley, G., Reynolds, M. (2004). Community and Environmental OR: Towards a New Agenda. In: Midgley, G., Ochoa-Arias, A. (eds) Community Operational Research. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8911-6_13

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