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This chapter covers how to evaluate the impact of community-based system dynamics (CBSD) projects. It begins by discussing implementation within the context of the dual nature of community-based system dynamics. This is followed by an overview of some of the issues one needs to consider in evaluating group model building and CBSD.
Rhythm…I had been hitchhiking in cars and trucks, and I needed to learn how to ride on freight trains, because they’re better for long distances. I asked the people living in the camp about catching freights, and they told me, “Look, if you ride a freight train you’re going to get killed, so we’re going to have to teach you.” And they actually simulated the whole experience. One of them would run along and be the train, and he’d make me keep pace with him: when he’d speed up, I’d speed up, when he’d slow down, I’d have to slow down. In other words, they taught me to synchronize my pace with the train until it was exactly the same…These experiences helped me think about the pace of social change and how to relate to it.
(Horton 1998, 82–83)
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Hovmand, P.S. (2014). Implementation and Evaluation. In: Community Based System Dynamics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8763-0_8
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