All Outputs (3)

A systemic integration approach to designing interagency responses to wicked problems (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sydelko, P., Midgley, G., & Espinosa, A. (2017). A systemic integration approach to designing interagency responses to wicked problems. In Proceedings of the 61st Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (23-54)

Wicked problems are open-ended, highly interdependent issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, political and geopolitical boundaries. This confounds governments because policies and budgets tend to be aligned within these boundaries an... Read More about A systemic integration approach to designing interagency responses to wicked problems.

Practitioner identity in systemic intervention: Reflections on the promotion of environmental health through Māori community development (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Midgley, G., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., Foote, J., Hepi, M., Taimona, H., Rogers-Koroheke, M., …Wood, D. (2007). Practitioner identity in systemic intervention: Reflections on the promotion of environmental health through Māori community development. Systems research and behavioral science, 24(2), 233-247. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.827

In systemic intervention, boundary critique is important. This means explicitly exploring the inclusion, exclusion and marginalization of both people and issues. Most of the practitioner's attention in boundary critique is usually focused on relation... Read More about Practitioner identity in systemic intervention: Reflections on the promotion of environmental health through Māori community development.

Moving beyond value conflicts : systemic problem structuring in action
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Midgley, G. Moving beyond value conflicts : systemic problem structuring in action.

Abstract: Value conflicts can become entrenched in a destructive pattern of mutual stigmatization, which inhibits the emergence of new understandings of the situation and actions for improvement. In extreme cases, such patterns can even lead to viole... Read More about Moving beyond value conflicts : systemic problem structuring in action.