Dorien DeTombe

Dorien J. DeTombe is the founder of the field of Methodology for Societal Complexity. She is an internationally recognized expert in the field of theory and practice in handling Complex Societal Problems and Issues. She developed the methodology COMPRAM (Complex Problem Handling Methodology),^[1] a multi disciplined methodology for political decision making on complex societal issues like sustainable development, floods, hurricanes, large city problems, terrorism, HIV/Aids, Sars and water affairs and economic problems like the credit crisis. The COMPRAM methodology is advised by the OECD (July 2006) to handle Global Safety.

General information

DeTombe studied social science and computer science and received her doctorate in the field of methodology for Societal Complexity on the COMPRAM Methodology. She spent her main career as a scientist at Utrecht University and at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and as a visiting professor abroad.

She has published over 100 articles and many books, some of them together with her colleagues Cor van Dijkum and Elmar Stuhler, on the subject of Methodology of Complex Societal Problems. She is doing research on the subject of how to handle complex problems in the area of Global safety. She gives lectures on the subject of Methodology of Societal Complexity as visiting professor and at conferences all over the world. She organizes yearly conferences on the topic of Methodology of Societal Complexity. She built a multidisciplinary International Research Group on Societal Complexity in Europe, North-America, and Africa.

Literature

• DeTombe, Dorien (1994). Defining complex interdisciplinary societal problems. A theoretical study for constructing a co-operative problem analyzing methodology: the methodology COMPRAM. Amsterdam: Thesis publishers Amsterdam (thesis). ISBN 9051703023. 

• DeTombe, Dorien J; van Dijkum, Cor, eds (1996). Analyzing Societal Problems. A Methodological Approach. Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag. ISBN 3-87988-189-8. 

• DeTombe, D.J.; Stuhler, E., eds (1999). Complex Problem Solving; Methodological Support for Societal Policy Making. Research on Cases and Theories. 6. Munchen/Mering: Hampp Verlag. ISBN 3-87988-356-4. 

• DeTombe, Dorien J (January 16, 2001). DeTombe. ed. "Compram, a Method for Handling Complex Societal Problems". European Journal of Operation Research 128 (2): 266–282. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw. 

• DeTombe, Dorien (2003). "Handling Complex Societal Problems (Applied on the Aids/HIV Problem)". In Becker, Henk; Vanclay, Frank. International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment Conceptual and Methodological Advances. Edward Elgar Publishers. pp. 296–315. ISBN 1840649356. 

References

1. ^ DeTombe, Dorien J (January 16, 2001). DeTombe. ed. "Compram, a Method for Handling Complex Societal Problems". European Journal of Operation Research 128 (2). doi:10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00070-9. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VCT-41SBG4T-6&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F16%2F2001&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1744116324&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=808f65b919be30b0028214fed5b7ca0b&searchtype=a. ,

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