Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking
Garcia, Claude A.; Savilaakso, Sini; Verburg, René W.; Stoudmann, Natasha; Fernbach, Philip; Sloman, Steven A.; Peterson, Garry D.; Araújo, Miguel B.; Bastin, Jean-François; Blaser, Jürgen; Boutinot, Laurence; Crowther, Thomas W.; Dessard, Hélène; Dray, Anne; Francisco, Scott; Ghazoul, Jaboury; Feintrenie, Laurène; Hainzelin, Etienne; Kleinschroth, Fritz; Naimi, Babak; Novotny, Ivan P.; Oszwald, Johan; Pietsch, Stephan A.; Quétier, Fabien; Robinson, Brian E.; Sassen, Marieke; Sist, Plinio; Sunderland, Terry; Vermeulen, Cédric; Wilmé, Lucienne; Wilson, Sarah J.; Zorondo-Rodríguez, Francisco; Waeber, Patrick O.
(2022) Nature Sustainability, volume 5, issue 6, pp. 464 - 471
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Abstract
While the scientific community documents environmental degradation and develops scenarios to identify the operational margins of system Earth, less attention is given to how decisions are made that steer the system in one direction or the other. We propose to use strategy games for this purpose, increasing the representation of
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human agency in scenario development and creating spaces for deliberation between different worldviews. Played by the right people, strategy games could help break free from established norms and support more transparent democratic dialogues, responding to the human and social limitations of current decision-making.
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Keywords: Psychology and behaviour, sustainability, Taverne, Geography, Planning and Development, Food Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Urban Studies
ISSN: 2398-9629
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Note: Funding Information: We thank S. Mazas for designing the illustrations; the Forest Stewardship Council Congo Basin Office, its former director M. Auger-Schwartzenberg and his colleagues O. Rickenbach and W. Lawyer for entrusting us with the facilitation of the Regional Working Group on High Conservation Values (HCV-RWG) session in Brazzaville in 2017; and H. Vellema, R. Jezeer, E. Speelman and A. Fellay for their support. The empirical examples given here stem from the work of the CoForTips project (ANR‐12‐EBID‐0002) funded by the ERA-NET BiodivERsA, with the national funders ANR, BELSPO and FWF, as part of the 2012 call for research proposals, and the OPAL project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (r4d-Ecosystems) grant no. 152019. The MineSet model was developed by the CoForSet project, funded by the FRB 2013 call for research proposals 'Scenarios of Biodiversity for Sub-Saharan Africa', with support by the FFEM. MineSet was tested by Tropenbos International at their offices in Wageningen. Funding Information: We thank S. Mazas for designing the illustrations; the Forest Stewardship Council Congo Basin Office, its former director M. Auger-Schwartzenberg and his colleagues O. Rickenbach and W. Lawyer for entrusting us with the facilitation of the Regional Working Group on High Conservation Values (HCV-RWG) session in Brazzaville in 2017; and H. Vellema, R. Jezeer, E. Speelman and A. Fellay for their support. The empirical examples given here stem from the work of the CoForTips project (ANR‐12‐EBID‐0002) funded by the ERA-NET BiodivERsA, with the national funders ANR, BELSPO and FWF, as part of the 2012 call for research proposals, and the OPAL project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (r4d-Ecosystems) grant no. 152019. The MineSet model was developed by the CoForSet project, funded by the FRB 2013 call for research proposals 'Scenarios of Biodiversity for Sub-Saharan Africa', with support by the FFEM. MineSet was tested by Tropenbos International at their offices in Wageningen. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, Springer Nature Limited.
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