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Researching with values for more ethical decisions
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Working in the action/research nexus for education for sustainable development; two case studies from Ireland
Purpose – Higher education has a key role and responsibility in creating change and addressing issues of fundamental human concern such as inequality and social justice, globalisation and development, environmental protection and sustainability. The purpos ...
2008Decision-based methods for early phase sustainable product design
Paul Xirouchakis, Razvan Alexandru Gheorghe
This paper presents a new method for evaluating product designs at their early stage of development according to different criteria and a case-study-based project. The goal is to select among imprecisely defined design alternatives in a multicriteria conte ...
2007The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in abstract state-based inference during decision making in humans
Many real-life decision-making problems incorporate higher-order structure, involving interdependencies between different stimuli, actions, and subsequent rewards. It is not known whether brain regions implicated in decision making, such as the ventromedia ...
2006Solution spaces for decision-making—a sustainability assessment tool for city-regions
The sound development of city-regions presents a major planning challenge, as these regions are and will be the living spaces for the majority of the population. Therefore, a key question is how city- regions can be managed so that they develop in a sustai ...
Elsevier2005Evaluation de stratégies pour la gestion du risque sismique du bâtiment
This document presents the results of a research on seismic risk management. It echoes the worldwide trend of increasing awareness of the importance of this risk and represents a contribution to the effort of research. In order to manage risk in a rational ...
EPFL2004