Systems Thinking and WASH: Tools and case studies for a sustainable water supply

Author:   Kate Neely
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
Edition:   Annotated edition
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9781788530255


Pages:   186
Publication Date:   15 February 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Systems Thinking and WASH: Tools and case studies for a sustainable water supply


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Water supplies in developing countries fail at unacceptable rates. In an era of high technology and a global drive for sustainable water and sanitation (SDG6), we need to find solutions to the ‘wicked problems’ that characterize water for development programmes around the world. Systems Thinking and WASH introduces practitioners, researchers, programme managers and donors to the tools and approaches that have been most successful in this area. This book explores the different applications of systems thinking used by an interdisciplinary group of WASH researchers and practitioners. With additional commentary from the field, each chapter helps us to imagine different ways to understand and work with communities, development agencies and governments to create a better world through more appropriate WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) programming. The book includes an annotated list of additional resources that anyone interested in non-linearity, complex adaptive systems, systems thinking, social network analysis or system dynamics will find useful as a practical guide to getting started. This book is highly important reading for WASH programme managers, government and NGO staff and donor agencies interested in the application of systems thinking techniques.

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Author:   Kate Neely
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
Imprint:   Practical Action Publishing
Edition:   Annotated edition
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9781788530255


ISBN 10:   178853025
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   15 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements About the editor List of acronyms and abbreviations 1. Introduction: WASH projects and complex adaptive systems Kate Neely 2. Systems thinking and transdisciplinarity in WASH Kate Neely 3. Using causal loop diagrams to understand handpump failure in sub-Saharan Africa Elisabeth S. Liddle and Richard A. Fenner 4. Applying social network analysis to WASH Duncan McNicholl 5. Social-ecological system resilience for WASH Jeremy Kohlitz, Naomi Carrard, and Tim Foster 6. Bureaucracy, WASH, and systems thinking Chris Brown 7. Learning for adaptive management: using systems thinking tools to inform knowledge and learning approaches Melita Grant and Juliet Willetts 8. Measuring impact in WASH from a complex adaptive systems perspective Chris Brown 9. WASH adaptation in Uganda (a practitioner case study) Adam Harvey 10. Resources for systems thinking Kate Neely

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Kate Neely is a Research Fellow at University of Melbourne who works on the application of systems thinking to WASH issues in Timor-Leste (East Timor) and other developing countries.

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