An Innovative Game-Based Approach for Teaching Urban Sustainability

AbstractThis paper is based on SUSTAIN, an ERASMUS+ project with an innovative perspective on urban transportation, and its target is to promote the importance of sustainability on the everyday problem of urban transportation among the students of higher education (and not only), who are the policy makers of tomorrow. In order to achieve its goals, the research team is currently developing a course that will be based on an interactive serious board game with an analytical style of education. SUSTAIN’s purpose is to create a game that will allow students to learn about transportation sustainability and societal metabolism through playing. The project partners develop small and illustrative simulation models, which will make the definitions more concrete and allow students to experiment largely in a consequence-free environment. The simulation models can be used to identify scenario exemplars on how we can achieve sustainable urban transportation and consequently a balanced societal metabolism, while on the same time taking into account formal decision making processes. In this paper, we are going to explain a Stocks ---amp--- Flows Diagram for the above mentioned model, with a system dynamics approach.

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Policy makers on the research team: real-time health policy improvements during mifepristone implementation research in Canada

Contraception ◽

10.1016/j.contraception.2018.07.009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 98 (4) ◽

pp. 331 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

WV Norman ◽

S Munro ◽

C Devane ◽

E Guilbert ◽

M Brooks ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Policy ◽

Real Time ◽

Implementation Research ◽

Research Team ◽

Policy Makers

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Predicting and testing a silo-free delivery system

Healthcare Management Forum ◽

10.1177/0840470418793910 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (5) ◽

pp. 200-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Eileen Florence Pepler ◽

Joy Pridie ◽

Steve Brown

Keyword(s):

Support Groups ◽

Community Support ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Policy Makers ◽

New Ways Of Working ◽

Working Together ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

Time To Learn ◽

Free Environment ◽

Future Population

Given the scale and complexity of the challenge of addressing the aging population, increasing demand for complex and integrated care, this article sets out potential opportunities to predict a future without silos, based on international learnings. Examining another country’s health and delivery systems, it is interesting to see the similarities and differences, so we offer some reflections applicable to Canada. These models are breaking down the silos. Imagine a setting where you could collaboratively co-design scenarios, debate, refine policy, and predict future population needs. Using a transformation lab setting, governments and policy-makers, providers, patients, families, and community support groups could collaboratively take the time to learn new ways of working together in a risk-free environment before becoming accountable for delivering targeted outcomes. It is time to implement provincial transformation labs to test local strategies and operational plans to co-design scenarios, use simulation, and test the choices using evidence-based tools.

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A systematic and bibliometric review on risk culture: a novel theoretical framework

The Journal of Risk Finance ◽

10.1108/jrf-06-2020-0123 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Riccardo Cimini

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Content Type ◽

Corporate Strategies ◽

The Everyday ◽

Bibliometric Review ◽

Risk Culture ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

Practical Implications

PurposeThis paper includes a systematic and bibliometric review of research products that address risk culture published between 1996 and 2019.Design/methodology/approachThe Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol has been followed for the systematic literature review. As to the bibliometric analysis, a network helps the readers to identify the most prominent research, if any, in terms of mutual references.FindingsRisk culture has been extensively investigated under different perspectives by scholars who belong to a research community not so much integrated in terms of reciprocal references.Practical implicationsManagers, policy makers and politicians should learn that it is important to understand risk culture because the effectiveness of corporate strategies and reforms pass also through cultural values of people that determine their conduct in the everyday lives.Originality/valueBeing still lacking, this article contributes to the literature by providing a novel theoretical framework that reconciles the different approaches through which risk culture has been investigated. The framework explains that behind risk culture there are always people and their behaviour facing risk and uncertainty. In the extent, bounded rationality might produce (mis)perceptions of risks, a large variety of human behaviour, and so different risk cultures can be observed.

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Exploring early childhood educators’ experiences of teaching young children with disability

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood ◽

10.1177/1836939120944635 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 280-291

Author(s):

Leanne Munchan ◽

Joseph Agbenyega

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Inclusive Education ◽

Professional Learning ◽

Early Childhood Educators ◽

Small Scale ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Diversity And Inclusion ◽

Children With Disability ◽

Academic Researchers ◽

The Everyday

This paper argues that whilst inclusive education in early childhood is gaining wider acceptance in the equity and diversity movement, the value and contribution of educators’ voices about what is working and challenging are frequently ignored. This small-scale research explored five early childhood educators’ understandings and experiences of inclusive education in two kindergartens in Victoria, Australia. A thematic analysis of the data highlights inclusion as a right to belong and fully participate; the need for modifications to orchestrate a culture of acceptance, diversity and inclusion; a lack of support and inadequate professional learning; and supporting effective practice through relationship with families, experts and children. The findings draw implications of evidence-based professional learning that is less focused on the interests of academic researchers and policy makers and more on the everyday needs of early childhood educators.

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Climate change and the Puget Sound: Building the legal framework for adaptation

Climate Law ◽

10.1163/cl-2011-039 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 299-344 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yee Huang ◽

Robert L. Glicksman ◽

Catherine O’Neill ◽

William L. Andreen ◽

Victor Flatt ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Puget Sound ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Climate Change Effects ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Adaptation Policies ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change ◽

Puget Sound Region

Regardless of the efforts governments may take to mitigate the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities on climate change, the need for society to adapt to climate change is unavoidable. Adapting to the myriad impacts of climate change will require actions at all levels of government. This article focuses on the anticipated impacts of climate change on the Puget Sound region in the northwestern United States as an example of the range of problems climate change will present and of the solutions available to governments and others interested in avoiding or minimizing the adverse impacts of climate change. As a guide for policy-makers, the article offers general principles for formulating climate change adaptation policies, suggestions for changes in decision-making processes that make them more suitable for addressing the unpredictable impacts of climate change, and strategies for adapting to three specific categories of climate change effects: impacts on the hydrologic cycle, sea-level rise, and altered meteorological conditions. The strategies and recommendations analysed in the article can provide a model for climate change adaptation policies, both in the Puget Sound region and more broadly, that are both environmentally protective and socially equitable.

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Let’s Perform and Paint! The Role of Creative Mediums in Enhancing Management Research Representation

Journal of Management Inquiry ◽

10.1177/1056492618760723 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 301-308 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Lakshmi Balachandran Nair ◽

Pauline Fatien Diochon ◽

Reka Anna Lassu ◽

Suzanne G. Tilleman

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Management Research ◽

Business Professionals ◽

Missed Opportunities ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

The Impact ◽

Multisensory Experience ◽

Research Representation

The limited reach of management research results in missed opportunities to support the decision-making processes of business professionals and policy makers. To strengthen the impact of management research and overcome barriers posed by text-heavy representation, we advocate for the use of creative mediums (e.g., collage, film, poetry) to showcase the product of an inquiry, either alone or as a supplement to traditional reporting. We provide a rationale for how these mediums trigger interest, foster a multisensory experience, convey complex meaning, and spark contemporary, inclusive dialogues. Each of the four rationales is discussed by showing an example of previous use, and explaining how the respective barrier to research representation is overcome. We finally offer recommendations for how management researchers can employ creative mediums to enhance the fertility of their work.

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Using mobile phone diaries to explore children’s everyday lives

Childhood ◽

10.1177/0907568212440014 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 539-553 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Lydia Plowman ◽

Olivia Stevenson

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Mobile Phone ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Research Team ◽

Experience Sampling ◽

Text Messages ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Sufficient Detail ◽

The Everyday

This article describes a novel approach to experience sampling as a response to the challenges of researching the everyday lives of young children at home. Parents from 11 families used mobile phones to send the research team combined picture and text messages to provide ‘experience snapshots’ of their child’s activities six times on each of three separate days. The article describes how the method aligns with an ecocultural approach, illustrates the variation in children’s experiences and provides sufficient detail for researchers to adapt the method for the purposes of collecting data in other contexts. The article summarizes the benefits and shortcomings from the perspectives of families and researchers.

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Investigating responses to theft in early modern Wales: communities, thieves and the courts

Continuity and Change ◽

10.1017/s0268416004005211 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 409-430 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

SHARON HOWARD

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Early Modern ◽

Local Networks ◽

Court Records ◽

Criminological Research ◽

The Everyday ◽

Everyday World ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

The Rich ◽

Communal Responsibility

This article makes use of the rich deposits of pre-trial documents in the court archives of early modern Wales, focusing on the county of Denbighshire, to investigate attitudes and responses to theft. Qualitative research on this subject tends to emphasize or privilege actively law-enforcing behaviour that led to trials; while that is the inevitable emphasis of court records, I argue that we need to examine witness testimonies more closely in order to understand responses that did not match up to the ideals of vigilance and communal responsibility. Drawing on modern criminological research, I explore ‘suspicion’ and the decision-making processes leading to various outcomes: non-action; investigation and prosecution; alternative resolutions that bypassed the courts. Finally, I explore the everyday ‘world of stolen goods’ and its social and economic rewards in local networks of reciprocal favours, gifts and alliances.

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Blinded by Science

10.1332/policypress/9781447322337.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

David Wastell ◽

Susan White

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Family Policy ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Public ◽

Disadvantaged Children ◽

The Everyday ◽

Everyday World ◽

Public Imagination

In recent years, new areas of biology, especially epigenetics and neuroscience, have enthralled the public imagination. They have been used as powerful arguments for developing social policy in a particular direction, from early intervention in the lives of disadvantaged children to seeking 'biomarkers' as identifiers of criminality. This book critically examines the capabilities and limitations of these biotechnologies, exploring their implications for policy and practice. The book will enable social scientists, policy makers, practitioners and interested general readers to understand how the new biologies of epigenetics and neuroscience have increasingly influenced the fields of family policy, mental health, child development and criminal justice. The book will facilitate much needed debate about what makes a good society and how best to build one. It also draws attention to the ways that the uncertainties of the original science are lost in their translation into the everyday world of practice and policy, and how the primary work is co-opted and manipulated to support particular moral agendas.

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