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9783030670153: Urban Sustainability: A Game-Based Approach (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
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ISBN 10: 3030670155 ISBN 13: 9783030670153
Verlag: Springer, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.


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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 ahypothetical 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.

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3030670155
ISBN 13 
9783030670153
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
277
Herausgeber
Papathanasiou Jason, Tsaples Georgios, Blouchoutzi Anastasia
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