Problem Scoping and Identification

Abstract

This book is about describing community-based system dynamics (CBSD), an approach to doing system dynamics in community settings that has evolved over the last several years from the work we are doing in the Brown School Social System Design Lab at Washington University in St. Louis. As interest in these methods has grown around the world, there has been an increasing demand for resources that people interested in CBSD can draw on as they move forward in their own initiatives in communities