Abstract.
Water-related
conflicts
in
river
catchments
occur
due
to
both
internal
and
external
pressures
that
affect
catchment
water
availability.
Lack
of
shared
understanding
by
stakeholders
increase
the
complexity
human-water
issues
at
scale.
Among
a
range
participatory
approaches,
development
use
serious
games
gained
prominence
as
tool
stimulate
discussion
reflection
among
about
sustainable
resource
collective
action.
This
study
designed
implemented
ENGAGE
game
(Exploring
New
Gaming
Approach
Guide
Enlighten),
mimics
dynamics
observed
during
dry
season
upper
Ewaso
Ng’iro
catchment,
North
West
Mount
Kenya.
The
purpose
this
was
explore
potential
role
gaming
subsequent
steps
strengthening
stakeholder
engagement
(agenda
setting,
understanding,
commitment
action,
means
implementation)
toward
addressing
complex
human-water-related
challenges
We
assessed
type
decisions
made
gameplay,
communication
dynamics,
active
participation,
implication
on
results
three
sessions
show
raised
awareness
provided
recognizable
hydro-logic
background
while
guiding
community
discussions
implementable
decisions.
revealed
increasing
knowledge
gain,
plural
pronouns,
decreasing
individual
interests
participants.
presents
important
implications
for
creating
basis
management
can
inform
policies
modification
process
behind
allocation
rules
catchment.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
65, С. 101375 - 101375
Опубликована: Окт. 19, 2023
Natural
resource
management
(NRM)
is
complex
and
often
characterized
by
a
multitude
of
stakeholders
at
different
scales,
each
with
their
own
goals.
Increasingly,
serious
games
are
used
in
these
contexts
as
(social)
learning
tools
boundary
objects
to
facilitate
collective
support
local
decision-making.
However,
despite
the
well-established
interest,
scientific
evidence
impact
remains
debated
topic.
Here,
we
present
brief
overview
most
recent
literature.
Our
aim
contribute
that
debate
conceptual
proposal
based
on
issue-attention
cycle,
suggest
clearly
linking
game
objective,
desired
learning,
associated
assessment
method
researchers
practitioners
efforts
move
from
knowledge
action
while
building
about
games.
Hydrology and earth system sciences,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
28(15), С. 3495 - 3518
Опубликована: Авг. 1, 2024
Abstract.
Water-related
conflicts
in
river
catchments
occur
due
to
both
internal
and
external
pressures
that
affect
catchment
water
availability.
Lack
of
common
understanding
human–water
perspectives
by
stakeholders
increases
the
complexity
issues
at
scale.
Among
a
range
participatory
approaches,
development
use
serious
games
gained
prominence
as
tool
stimulate
discussion
reflection
among
about
sustainable
resource
collective
action.
This
study
designed
implemented
ENGAGE
(Exploring
New
Gaming
Approach
Guide
Enlighten)
game
mimics
dynamics
observed
during
dry
season
upper
Ewaso
Ngiro
catchment,
northwest
Mount
Kenya.
The
purpose
this
was
explore
potential
role
gaming
subsequent
steps
strengthening
stakeholder
engagement
(agenda
setting,
shared
understanding,
commitment
action,
means
implementation)
toward
addressing
complex
challenges
We
assessed
type
decisions
made
gameplay,
communication
dynamics,
active
participation,
implication
on
results
three
sessions
show
raised
awareness
provided
recognizable
hydrologic
background
while
guiding
community
discussions
implementable
decisions.
revealed
increasing
knowledge
gain,
plural
pronouns
decreasing
individual
interests
participants.
presents
important
implications
for
creating
basis
management
can
inform
policies
modification
process
behind
allocation
rules
catchment.
Discover Sustainability,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
6(1)
Опубликована: Янв. 15, 2025
Abstract
Serious
Games
(SG)
have
shown
potential
as
transformative
tools
in
sustainability
research.
Despite
the
diverse
and
widespread
adoption
of
SG
multifunctional
within
collaborative
forms
knowledge
production,
their
contribution
to
research
processes
is
underexplored.
Likewise,
selection,
alignment,
integration
appropriate
tailored
specific
stages
a
process
lacks
clear
guidelines.
To
fill
this
gap,
we
aim
map
We
propose
facilitate
assessment
alignment
guide
based
on
three
dimensions:
complexity
levels,
engagement
generic
processes.
This
study
explores
organizes
space
uses
aforementioned
dimensions.
It
provides
guidelines
each
SG's
suitability
its
process.
operationalizes
proposed
conceptual
mapping
with
help
two
examples.
Future
work
should
empirically
validate
approach
across
contexts
address
scalability,
long-term
impacts,
ethical
considerations
resource-constrained
settings.
Diverse
stakeholders
in
rural
landscapes
commonly
have
distinct
and
often
conflicting
needs
interests
for
the
available
water
resources
resulting
complex
human-water
interactions,
especially
water-scarce
regions.
In
such
landscapes,
resolving
among
individual
viewpoints
moving
toward
collective
human–water
perspectives
is
paramount
to
achieving
sustainable
management
of
decreasing
resources.
Serious
games
been
proposed
as
participatory
tools
(social)
learning
contested
however
impact
approaches
on
understudied.
This
study
addresses
this
knowledge
gap
by
evaluating
ENGAGE
(Exploring
New
Gaming
Approach
Guide
Enlighten)
game
a
tool
fostering
perspectives.
The
Upper
Ewaso
Ng’iro
basin
Kenya
was
selected
area
its
social-ecological
dynamics,
characterized
interplay
climatic
variability,
competing
demands,
governance
challenges
that
shape
resource
management.
Through
five
sessions,
participants’
were
assessed
at
three
points
time:
pre-game,
post-game,
post-post-game,
using
Q-method.
Findings
indicate
serious
gaming
enhanced
awareness
catchment-scale
challenges,
particularly
influence
geographic
location,
economic
drivers,
illegal
abstractions
availability.
While
immediate
post-game
assessments
showed
shifts
perspectives,
long-term
follow-ups
revealed
partial
reversion
pre-game
opinions,
emphasizing
need
sustained
engagement.
contributes
literature
interactions
demonstrating
potential
promoting
experiential
stakeholder
engagement
governance.
findings
are
relevant
socio-hydrological
scientists,
managers,
policymakers
seeking
innovative
conflict
resolution
Agricultural Systems,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
213, С. 103782 - 103782
Опубликована: Окт. 25, 2023
Serious
games
have
gained
popularity
as
an
innovative
participatory
approach
to
explore
the
complexity
of
social-ecological
systems,
managing
trade-offs
between
economic
and
ecological
targets.
can
be
abstract
generic,
or
more
complex
specific.
They
used
raise
awareness,
increase
shared
understanding
options
risks,
and/or
commitment
common
goals.
We
here
aim
clarify
design
principles
applied
in
FORCES
game
(Farmer
Options
its
Risk
Complex
Ecological-Social
systems)
single-player
easily
adaptable
diverse
(upper)
watershed
contexts.
Three
steps
involved
are
(balance
generic
site-specific
information),
use
(and
possibly
adaptation
to)
specified
context(s)
evaluation
contextualized
impacts.
The
was
based
on
three
contrasting
case
studies
East
Java,
Indonesia,
rather
than
single,
specific
study.
Game
development
consisted
preparation
(defining
context,
core
issues
objectives),
process
(ideating,
setting
actors,
resources,
elements,
mechanisms),
assessment
(prototyping,
exploration
solution
space,
trial
player
feedback).
Fifty-five
smallholders
played
landscapes
test
game's
performance
impact
participants'
insights.
Therefore,
we
recorded
every
session
performed
pre-
post-game
interviews
for
each
participant.
developed
focuses
decisions
individual
farmers
involving
plot-level
plant
(annual
crops,
trees)
choices
with
financial
cost-benefits
consequences
links
impacts
litter
layer,
water
balance,
erosion.
successfully
distinct
landscapes,
demonstrating
adaptability.
balance
supported
transferability
different
contexts,
while
fine-tuning
plot
management
reflect
local
variation
simple
due
solid
underlying
mechanics.
According
players,
reflects
dynamics
provides
a
realistic
experience,
triggering
participants
make
close
their
real-life
learn
from
consequences.
While
has
limited
representation
social
interactions
design,
allowed
relational
values
recognized
players'
responses.
Balancing
combination
elements
plays
essential
role
adaptability
reusability
locations.
adds
growing
array
that
support
farmers'
participation
higher-level
decision-making
processes
secure
environmental
services
productive
landscapes.
PLoS ONE,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
19(8), С. e0307832 - e0307832
Опубликована: Авг. 23, 2024
Rule
enforcement
is
critical
in
democratic,
self-governing
societies.
Many
political
disputes
occur
when
citizens
do
not
understand
the
fundamental
rationales
for
(e.g.,
COVID-19
pandemic).
We
examined
how
naïve
groups
learn
and
develop
wise
systems.
Based
on
theories
from
behavioral
economics,
science,
psychology,
education,
we
predicted
that
need
to
experience
failure
of
an
system,
but
be
guided
restorative
justice
principles
collectively
this
failure.
Undergraduate
students
(
N
=
288)
a
Midwestern
U.S.
metropolitan
university
self-governed
simulated
common-pool
resource
with
real
financial
payoffs.
Groups
began
one
three
conditions
designed
create
different
experiences
regulatory
failure:
(a)
no
(no
communication
or
peer
sanctioning),
(b)
lax
(communication
peer-sanctioning),
(c)
abuse
(peer
sanctioning
without
communication).
Half
then
received
facilitated
guidance
discuss
whether/why
use
sanctions).
To
examine
cooperation,
measured
well
participants
maintained
resource.
group
learning,
created
novel
coding
which
tracked
groups’
constitutional
decisions
about
conservation
agreements
enforcement,
conceptual
understanding,
systems
they
created.
The
no-enforcement
lax-enforcement
quickly
yielded
moderate
cooperation
via
voluntary
agreements.
However,
such
prevented
discovering
why
sanctioning)
improve
performance.
Initial
exposure
had
effects
depending
facilitation.
Unfacilitated
fixated
initial
misconceptions,
causing
them
abandon
less
sophisticated
systems,
hindering
cooperation.
Facilitated
learned
prior
failure—discovering
collective
efficiency,
self-restraint)—and
more
coordinated
sanctions)
improved
Guidance
may
necessary
preconditions
individuals
wiser
