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Urban Sustainability

A Game-Based Approach

  • Text developed in EU’s Erasmus+ program for education and training
  • Uses game-based scenarios to understand sustainable urban development
  • Includes online components

Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Societal Metabolism: A Brief Introduction

    • Natalia Ciobanu, Camelia Onofrei
    Pages 1-37
  3. Sustainable Urban Mobility

    • Glykeria Myrovali, Maria Morfoulaki
    Pages 39-80
  4. Decision Making in the Context of Sustainability

    • Georgios Tsaples, Jason Papathanasiou, Panagiota Digkoglou
    Pages 81-130
  5. System Dynamics Modelling for Urban Sustainability

    • Stefano Armenia, Federico Barnabè, Alessandro Pompei, Rocco Scolozzi
    Pages 131-173
  6. Translating Models into a Game Design

    • Michalina Kułakowska, Aleksandra Solińska-Nowak
    Pages 175-204
  7. The Board Game

    • Luigi Ferrini
    Pages 205-214
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 215-266

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Jason Papathanasiou, Georgios Tsaples

  • Department of International and European Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Anastasia Blouchoutzi

About the editors

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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