Finding successful strategies in a complex urban sustainability game.

ABSTRACT: The adverse effects of unsustainable behaviors on human society are leading to an increasingly urgent and critical need to change policies and practices worldwide. This requires that citizens become informed and engaged in participatory governance and measures leading to sustainable futures. Citizens' understanding of the inherent complexity of sustainable systems is a necessary (though generally not sufficient) ingredient for them to understand controversial public policies and maintain the core principles of democratic societies. In this work, we present a novel, open-ended experiment where individuals had the opportunity to solve model urban sustainability problems in a purposeful game. Participants were challenged to interact with familiar LEGO blocks representing elements in a complex

SUBMITTER: Monechi B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8333319 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature