Working at the interface between systems and complexity thinking: Insights from a market access design project for poor livestock producers

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 727-741

  Woog, Robert ^a   Cavana, Robert Y ^b   Roberts, Roger ^a   Packham, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Complexity theory; Livestock market access; Methodological development; System dynamics; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY THEORY; MARKET ACCESS; METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEMS THINKING;

COMMERCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; SYSTEM THEORY;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 33846309588     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.685     Document Type: Article

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