Soft systems methodology: a thirty year retrospective

Developing and implementing a social prescribing initiative in primary care: insights into the possibility of normalisation and sustainability from a UK case study

“…The initiative was consciously 'theoretically-informed ' (ICEBeRG, 2006) and the discussion below forms a context for subsequent empirical analysis. HCS was designed, implemented and evaluated using various resources: primarily, soft system theory (Checkland, 2000) complemented by concepts such as, stepped 'change management' [from developing and communicating an early vision through to anchoring new approaches] (Moran & Avergun, 1997), nurturing features of 'capacity'…”

Tackling wicked environmental problems: The discourse and its influence on praxis in Scotland

“…For example, Batie (2008) approaches such as the one inherent to the socio-ecological framework (Berkes, 2011) and 186 underpinning the proposals by Shindler and Cramer (1999), Chapin et al (2008) and 187 Sharman (2009). Beyond transdisciplinary planning processes, Innes and Booher (2010) 188 propose a complexity-based approach to tackle wicked problems that also appears to favour 189 looking at wicked problems through the lens of systems thinking but using softer tools that 190 recognise different world views and local knowledge (see also Checkland, 1981 and2000).…”

Adaptive Management of Riverine Socio-ecological Systems

“…Over the past century, these challenges have been independently recognized and addressed in a variety of disciplines and contexts. Similar but separate experimental lineages have tried to make decision-making more adaptive in, e.g., business (Vennix 1999;Senge 1990;Checkland 2000), policy (Toth 1988;Sabatier 2006), and natural resource management (Holling 1978;Walters 1986;Gunderson et al 1995), to name but a few. This chapter describes principles common to many approaches and focuses on adaptive management of natural resources for its application to river management.…”