The systems approach, or systems thinking, has been intimately connected with the
development of OR and management science initially through the work of founders such as …

Endemic issues of sustainability in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector have
led to the rapid expansion of 'system approaches' for assessing the multitude of …

This research describes and analyses a methodological approach, known as Soft Systems
Methodology (SSM). SSM was applied in the sugar industry, which is characterized by …

Rural water supply services worldwide consistently fail to deliver full public health impacts
as intended due to a low service sustainability. This failure is increasingly attributed to weak …

Water service to the urban poor presents challenges to political leaders, regulators and
managers. We identify technology mixes of yard taps, public water points (with and without …

Public enterprises remain the most dominant medium of service provision in both
develo** and developed countries. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the outcry about …

Motivation The gap between policy, implementation and outcome is neither new nor specific
to the sphere of sanitation. This article attempts to apply policy implementation literature in …

By following the steps of the Integrated Water Management (IWM) approach in the European
Union, Brazil has moved from a top-down approach to water management to a participatory …

Pesticides are widely used in homes, industries and agricultural sector, and can travel
through water and the air to pollute places far from their point source. Pesticides can find …

This aim of this article is to develop a conceptual group decision model capable of
diagnosing existing barriers to achieving goals in results-based management in the Water …