...This chapter argues that current centrally dictated ‘command and control’ methods of public service management are inherently wasteful, and have only made services worse at higher cost. Instead, it suggests an alternative ‘systems thinking’ methodology and illustrates the application...

... the adoption application. It discusses the use of the systems thinking and a task-centred approach in the intervention, the actual social work process with the family and the author's evaluation of the effectiveness of her intervention approach. social work family adoption systems thinking task-centred...

... Development as a global educational programme advanced by the United Nations. The chapter then demonstrates how teaching about ecological challenges can impart new knowledge about alternative ecological understandings, such as the Latin American concept of Buen Vivir and complex systems thinking, both...

...This chapter provides an overview of systems thinking in practice, the key concepts involved in it, and in particular the role of mapping in addressing complex situations. While the chapter touches on all four themes of the book, it focuses mainly on the systems thinking philosophy that underpins...

... crops biotechnology companies mapping techniques systems thinking philosophy mapping diagrams participatory research Working towards sustainable agriculture often involves working on contested or controversial issues with others. They involve a complex mix of people, all with their own opinions...

...Systems thinking has been neglected in the policy sciences, to the detriment of both broad understandings of the role of policy, and of policy-making capacity. This chapter remedies this deficiency by tracing the trajectory of systems thinking in the policy sciences, introducing and explaining...

... to, the importance of seeing health—including clinical medicine and individual well-being—in social terms. It has, for example, become a truism in health services quality-improvement work that a realistic prospect of change depends upon ‘systems thinking’—analysing and addressing the broad range of factors...

...The whole systems approach differs from what has gone before in two main ways: by combining elements of practice from diverse fields, such as organisational design, strategy management, systems thinking, organisational and community development, and public and social policy; and by working in a new...

... of partnerships is needed based upon systems thinking to tackle the complex ‘wicked issues’ found in public health. Balloch S and Taylor M Blair Tony Hudson B et al Hunter D J ix xi Ling T marketisation policies New Labour on partnership working Powell M and Glendinning C ‘third way’ policies bureaucracy...