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Environmental simulation research has expanded rapidly over the past two decades in response to several societal trends. First, growing awareness of natural resource scarcities and the adverse health and social consequences of environmental pollution prompted increased interest in risk management and environmental forecasting strategies. The value of environmental simulation techniques as a means of avoiding the unintended health and behavioral costs of poorly designed environments has gained increasing recognition among urban planners, architects, social scientists, and public-policy professionals. Moreover, new perspectives on organizational management for democratizing the workplace, schools, and other community institutions (Becker, 1990; Sundstrom, 1986) afforded new opportunities for using environmental simulation as a tool for increasing citizen participation and occupants’ input into the design and management of both public and private environments. Finally, recent technological advances in computer-aided design, video-disk imaging, and full-scale environmental modeling further stimulated the rapid growth of this field during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Marans, R.W., Stokols, D. (1993). Epilogue. In: Marans, R.W., Stokols, D. (eds) Environmental Simulation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1140-7_13
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