Case-Oriented Paper
Journal of the Operational Research Society (2009) 60, 587–597; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602585 Published online 2 April 2008
Robustness analysis for sustainable community development
A A Namen1, C T Bornstein1 and J Rosenhead2
- 1COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2Department of Management, London School of Economics, London, UK
Correspondence: J Rosenhead, Department of Management, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. E-mail: J.Rosenhead@lse.ac.uk
Received August 2007; Accepted January 2008; Published online 2 April 2008.
Abstract
This paper presents some alternatives for the improvement of the conditions of life for poor communities based on self-management and sustainability in food production. A complex decision process is necessarily involved, and a soft OR approach, more specifically, robustness analysis, is used in its analysis. Some new features of the approach arise, not least from its community operational research context. A software called Robus has been developed which helps in the application of the methodology.
Keywords:
community OR, robustness analysis, sustainable development, developing countries, decision support systems, agriculture
