How 'effectiveness', increasingly a measurement of value replacing
a simple financial result, can best be judged across a wide variety
of fields. The purpose of this volume is to examine the concept and
measurement of 'effectiveness', now increasingly employed to
evaluate the kinds of operations where success cannot be judged in
monetary terms. A philosopher comments on thedevelopment of the
concepts of 'cause' and 'effect' from classical times to the
present; a systems engineer looks at the possibility of using the
parameter for the evaluation of coherent systems; a restoration
ecologist discussesthe parameters used in reforestation and their
relation to effectiveness considered at different levels; a
sociologist relates the methodologies used in this discipline to
evaluate the effectiveness of health programs; an expertof
education discusses the applicability of the measurement of
effectiveness to the functioning of schools; a specialist in aid to
developing countries describes the effectiveness of operations from
the implementation of major projects to demining operations; a
consultant on foreign aid highlights the cultural perception of
efficacy in developing countries; finally, an anthropologist
examines the relationship between 'effectiveness' and 'efficiency'
in food intake and production between two different populations
living in the same region, a semi-nomadic agro-pastoralist and a
settled agriculturalist one. A concluding discussion notes the
salience of the concept of effectiveness inmany 'living' phenomena,
including sociocultural ones, and the possibility of using them
better to understand their evolution.
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