Urban Sustainability: A Game-Based Approach (1st ed. 2021) (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)

By: Jason Papathanasiou and Georgios Tsaples and Anastasia Blouchoutzi

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Synopsis: 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 needed to make robust decisions.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030670160
Related ISBNs:: 9783030670153
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 09/23/21
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jason Papathanasiou
Edited by:: Georgios Tsaples
Edited by:: Anastasia Blouchoutzi