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Decision Science for Housing and Community Development - (Wiley Operations Research and Management Science) (Hardcover)

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  • A multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving in community-based organizations using decision models and operations research applications A comprehensive treatment of public-sector operations research and management science, Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities addresses critical problems in urban housing and community development through a diverse set of decision models and applications.
  • About the Author: MICHAEL P. JOHNSON, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
  • 416 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Decision-Making & Problem Solving
  • Series Name: Wiley Operations Research and Management Science

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A multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving in community-based organizations using decision models and operations research applications

A comprehensive treatment of public-sector operations research and management science, Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities addresses critical problems in urban housing and community development through a diverse set of decision models and applications. The book represents a bridge between theory and practice and is a source of collaboration between decision and data scientists and planners, advocates, and community practitioners.

The book is motivated by the needs of community-based organizations to respond to neighborhood economic and social distress, represented by foreclosed, abandoned, and blighted housing, through community organizing, service provision, and local development. The book emphasizes analytic approaches that increase the ability of local practitioners to act quickly, thoughtfully, and effectively. By doing so, practitioners can design and implement responses that reflect stakeholder values associated with healthy and sustainable communities; that benefit from increased organizational capacity for evidence-based responses; and that result in solutions that represent improvements over the status quo according to multiple social outcome measures. Featuring quantitative and qualitative analytic methods as well as prescriptive and exploratory decision modeling, the book also includes:

  • Discussions of the principles of decision theory and descriptive analysis to describe ways to identify and quantify values and objectives for community development
  • Mathematical programming applications for real-world problem solving in foreclosed housing acquisition and redevelopment
  • Applications of case studies and community-engaged research principles to analytics and decision modeling

Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities is an ideal textbook for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses in decision models and applications; humanitarian logistics; nonprofit operations management; urban operations research; public economics; performance management; urban studies; public policy; urban and regional planning; and systems design and optimization. The book is also an excellent reference for academics, researchers, and practitioners in operations research, management science, operations management, systems engineering, policy analysis, city planning, and data analytics.



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A multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving in community-based organizations using decision models and operations research applications

A comprehensive treatment of public-sector operations research and management science, Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities addresses critical problems in urban housing and community development through a diverse set of decision models and applications. The book represents a bridge between theory and practice and is a source of collaboration between decision and data scientists and planners, advocates, and community practitioners.

The book is motivated by the needs of community-based organizations to respond to neighborhood economic and social distress, represented by foreclosed, abandoned, and blighted housing, through community organizing, service provision, and local development. The book emphasizes analytic approaches that increase the ability of local practitioners to act quickly, thoughtfully, and effectively. By doing so, practitioners can design and implement responses that reflect stakeholder values associated with healthy and sustainable communities; that benefit from increased organizational capacity for evidence-based responses; and that result in solutions that represent improvements over the status quo according to multiple social outcome measures. Featuring quantitative and qualitative analytic methods as well as prescriptive and exploratory decision modeling, the book also includes:

  • Discussions of the principles of decision theory and descriptive analysis to describe ways to identify and quantify values and objectives for community development
  • Mathematical programming applications for real-world problem solving in foreclosed housing acquisition and redevelopment
  • Applications of case studies and community-engaged research principles to analytics and decision modeling

Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities is an ideal textbook for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses in decision models and applications; humanitarian logistics; nonprofit operations management; urban operations research; public economics; performance management; urban studies; public policy; urban and regional planning; and systems design and optimization. The book is also an excellent reference for academics, researchers, and practitioners in operations research, management science, operations management, systems engineering, policy analysis, city planning, and data/urban analytics.



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"This book would be an excellent textbook for students who want to learn more about community-based operations research and are in advanced undergraduate or early graduate classes on the topic...The book�s cases and tools provide a wonderful reference for the broad spectrum of analytical tools available for students...Overall, the introductory sections provide a background and history of the various social issues and ills associated with urban crisis and sets an excellent foundation for the analytical models introduced later. We believe that the book contributes and advances CBOR, a topic that is meant to assist our most vulnerable regions and population, and we hope to see more topics related to this field in the future." (InterfacesJanuary 2017)




About the Author



MICHAEL P. JOHNSON, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

JEFFREY M. KEISLER, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

SENAY SOLAK, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

DAVID A. TURCOTTE, ScD, is Research Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

ARMAGAN BAYRAM, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at University of Michigan - Dearborn.

RACHEL BOGARDUS DREW, PhD, is a housing policy consultant.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.4 Inches (H) x 6.3 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 416
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Series Title: Wiley Operations Research and Management Science
Publisher: Wiley
Format: Hardcover
Author: Michael P Johnson & Jeffrey M Keisler & Senay Solak & David A Turcotte & Armagan Bayram & Rachel Bogardus Drew
Language: English
Street Date: September 28, 2015
TCIN: 1005531193
UPC: 9781118974995
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-1530
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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