Gamification for Resilience: Resilient Informed Decision Making

Gamification for Resilience: Resilient Informed Decision-Making combines game theory, design, and applications to create a resilient city that promotes sustainable development, well-being, and inclusive growth. It addresses critical infrastructure systems and how to ensure they are supported against man-made, natural threats and hazards. It also includes an introduction to systems theory, explorations of gamification, practical discussions of risk and vulnerability analysis, and treatments of system complexity representation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 02 August 2023
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

In Gamification for Resilience: Resilient Informed Decision-Making, a team of distinguished researchers delves into an insightful and captivating integration of game theory, design, and applications, shedding light on how to create a resilient city that fosters sustainable development, well-being, and inclusive growth. The authors skillfully blend numerous concepts and techniques from the realm of serious gaming, seamlessly integrating them into decision-making theory, thereby enabling Resilience Informed Decision-Making.

The book takes a deep dive into critical infrastructure systems and explores strategies to ensure their resilience against man-made, natural threats, and hazards. It presents thought-provoking research questions and case applications that engage and challenge readers, fostering an active and memorable learning experience. Additionally, readers will find:

A comprehensive introduction to systems theory, serving as the foundation for bridging science and the practice of engineering systems.

Comprehensive explorations of gamification and its application to the resilience-informed decision-making process.

Practical discussions of analyzing and assessing risk and vulnerability through serious gaming.

Thorough treatments of representing system complexity using object-oriented programming.

This book is a valuable resource for professionals and researchers working in the domains of decision-making, gamification, resilience, risk assessments, and critical infrastructures. It will also benefit undergraduate and graduate students studying urban planning, smart cities, and related subjects.

Weight: 1188g
ISBN-13: 9781394157747