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This chapter introduces Total Systems Intervention (TSI; as presented in Flood & Jackson, 1991) that might be better labeled nowadays Local Systemic Intervention (LSI; as presented in Flood, 1995b). LSI is the result of a postmodern critique of TSI. Part I of this book elaborated on the kind of critique I mean except that it was primarily directed at Critical Systems Thinking. I have extended that critique to TSI and the results are given below.1 LSI is a process of creative thinking about issues to be managed, choice-making over options available, and implementation of choices made achieving widely informed and locally relevant intervention.
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Flood, R.L. (1996). Total Systems Intervention. In: Flood, R.L., Romm, N.R.A. (eds) Critical Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-34651-9_6
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