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Beyond rationality in engineering design for sustainability

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  • Leidy Klotz

    (University of Virginia)

  • Elke Weber

    (Princeton University)

  • Eric Johnson

    (Columbia University)

  • Tripp Shealy

    (Virginia Tech)

  • Morela Hernandez

    (University of Virginia)

  • Bethany Gordon

    (University of Virginia)

Abstract

If you try to ensure long-term human well-being within the limits of the natural world, then you design for sustainability. This Review organizes research describing how cognitive biases can hinder and help engineering design for sustainability. For example, designers might overlook climate change implications because of nearsighted thinking, a bias which can be overcome by vividly imagining the future. For researchers, this Review illuminates needs at the convergence of decision science and engineering design. For designers (that is, all of us), the Review promises new routes to sustainability, through changes to decision environments and through insights into our own design thinking.

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  • Leidy Klotz & Elke Weber & Eric Johnson & Tripp Shealy & Morela Hernandez & Bethany Gordon, 2018. "Beyond rationality in engineering design for sustainability," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 1(5), pages 225-233, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natsus:v:1:y:2018:i:5:d:10.1038_s41893-018-0054-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0054-8
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    1. Julie Milovanovic & Tripp Shealy & Andrew Katz, 2021. "Higher Perceived Design Thinking Traits and Active Learning in Design Courses Motivate Engineering Students to Tackle Energy Sustainability in Their Careers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(22), pages 1-14, November.
    2. Liu, Yinshan & Wang, Yuanfeng & Shi, Chengcheng & Zhang, Weijun & Luo, Wei & Wang, Jingjing & Li, Keping & Yeung, Ngai & Kite, Steve, 2022. "Assessing the CO2 reduction target gap and sustainability for bridges in China by 2040," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).
    3. Maic Rakitta & Jannis Wernery, 2021. "Cognitive Biases in Building Energy Decisions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(17), pages 1-21, September.
    4. Sandra Waddock, 2020. "Reframing and Transforming Economics around Life," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-16, September.
    5. Raphael Wasserbaur & Tomohiko Sakao, 2020. "Conceptualising Design Fixation and Design Limitation and Quantifying Their Impacts on Resource Use and Carbon Emissions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(19), pages 1-21, October.
    6. Kwame Awuah-Offei & Sisi Que & Atta Ur Rehman, 2021. "Evaluating Mine Design Alternatives for Social Risks Using Discrete Choice Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-15, August.
    7. Li, Jiangong & Akdeniz, Neslihan & Kim, Harrison Hyung Min & Gates, Richard S. & Wang, Xinlei & Wang, Kaiying, 2021. "Optimal manure utilization chain for distributed animal farms: Model development and a case study from Hangzhou, China," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 187(C).
    8. Angelos Alamanos & Phoebe Koundouri, 2022. "Emerging Challenges and the Future of Water Resources Management," DEOS Working Papers 2221, Athens University of Economics and Business.

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