Overview
- Details ‘real world’ applications of Systems Thinking and Soft OR to support various domains
- Shows that many situations consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other, where the traditional linear approach to problem solving tends not to work
- Written by experts in this interdisciplinary field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (ASTSA)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Organizational Theme
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Disaster Management Theme
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Systems Approaches Theme
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Keywords
- Humanitarian disaster planning
- Managing complexity in organizations
- Post-disaster reconstruction
- Predictability of extreme all-hazards events
- Rebuilding with resilience
- Resilience governance
- Soft OR applied to disaster management
- Soft social systems
- Solving complex problems
- Systems thinking and disaster management
- Systems thinking in organization
- Systems-thinking in accident investigation
About this book
This book captures current trends and developments in the field of systems thinking and soft operations research which can be applied to solve today's problems of dynamic complexity and interdependency. Such ‘wicked problems’ and messes are seemingly intractable problems characterized as value-laden, ambiguous, and unstable, that resist being tamed by classical problem solving. Actions and interventions associated with this complex problem space can have highly unpredictable and unintended consequences. Examples of such complex problems include health care reform, global climate change, transnational serious and organized crime, terrorism, homeland security, human security, disaster management, and humanitarian aid. Moving towards the development of solutions to these complex problem spaces depends on the lens we use to examine them and how we frame the problem. It will be shown that systems thinking and soft operations research has had great success in contributing to the management of complexity.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research in Managing Complexity
Book Subtitle: From Problem Framing to Problem Solving
Editors: Anthony J. Masys
Series Title: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21106-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21105-3Published: 24 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37407-9Published: 01 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21106-0Published: 14 September 2015
Series ISSN: 1613-5113
Series E-ISSN: 2363-9466
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 322
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complex Systems, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Security Science and Technology, Simulation and Modeling, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems