Urban Sustainability

A Game-Based Approach

Jason Papathanasiou, Georgios Tsaples, Anastasia Blouchoutzi

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
20 August 2021

Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; Management decision making; Operational research; Regional geography

Series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics

This textbook provides an innovative pedagogy to students who will be the policy makers of tomorrow. It provides thoughts on sustainability and the complexity among its different dimensions. It guides students through experience, processes of complex decision making, and sharpen their clarity of thought, to enhance their communication abilities and help them develop critical thinking. It provides key competencies to address the complexities of sustainable development. By combining game-based learning with an analytical style of education, supplemental materials are provided to make the definitions of various sustainability aspects more concrete and allows students to experiment in a consequence-free environment, with scenario examples. Board Game and a hypothetical management course, dealing with various topics like transportation sustainability, societal metabolism, etc. as well as with decision making under those contexts, will formalize the mathematics neededto make robust decisions.

Edited by: Jason Papathanasiou, Georgios Tsaples, Anastasia Blouchoutzi
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 588g
ISBN: 9783030670153
ISBN 10: 3030670155
Series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 20 August 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Societal Metabolism – a Brief Introduction.- Chapter 2. Sustainable Urban Mobility.- Chapter 3. Decision Making in the Context of Sustainability.- Chapter 4. System Dynamics modelling for Urban Sustainability.- Chapter 5. Translating models into a game design.- Chapter 6. The Board Game.- Appendix: The Board Game- Cut-n’-Play.

Jason Papathanasiou is an Associate Professor in the Business Administration Department at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. He earned his Ph.D. at the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, and his research interests include Decision Support Systems, Operations Research (MCDA), Analysis and Design of Information Systems, Location Analysis, and Environmental Information Systems. Georgios Tsaples earned his MSc in Engineering and Policy Analysis at the Delft University of Technology, where he was introduced to simulation and decision analysis. He worked as a Research Fellow at the Center for Cyber Intelligence and Information Security at the University of Sapienza in Rome, and is currently earning his Ph.D. at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. Anastasia Blouchoutzi is a Research Fellow at the University of Macedonia. She holds a BA in International Studies, an MSc in International Economics and a PhD in the Economics of Migration. Her research interests include International Migration and Labour Economics. She has considerable research experience in various Greek and EU-funded projects like Erasmus+ and Interreg Europe. She speaks five languages and she has ten years’ experience in project management.