Competence-based and game-based capacity development for sustainable water management in Germany

Sewilam, Hani; Nacken, Heribert; Breuer, Roman; Pyka, Christiane

doi:10.1007/s12665-017-6416-0

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“…Germany has a large amount of rainfall and six river systems, as well as coastal areas facing the North and Baltic Seas. Thus, the country does not face a significant water shortage problem [42]. Nevertheless, WEc1 and WEc3 (saving water outdoors and indoors, respectively) were important credits for both groups (Tables 7 and A2, Appendix A).…”

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“…Each credit can have a certain number of points. By adding up all these points, LEED projects can achieve one out of four certifications: certified (scores [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49], silver (scores 50-59), gold (scores 60-79), or platinum (scores 80+) (Section 1.2 provides a summary of all prerequisites and credits for LEED-NC v3).…”

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Strategies for LEED-NC-Certified Projects in Germany and Results of Their Life Cycle Assessment

Pushkar

2023

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The aim of this study was to investigate strategies for the certification of environmentally friendly office buildings in Germany. A total of 39 LEED-NC gold-certified office space projects were ranked according to their “optimize energy performance” credit (EAc1) achievements from the energy and atmosphere (EA) category and divided into two groups: 13 projects (group 1) with the highest and 13 projects (group 2) with the lowest EAc1 achievements. Nonparametric statistics were used to evaluate the differences between groups 1 and 2. A two-stage nested analysis of variance test was used to evaluate the differences between the two groups in terms of their life cycle assessment (LCA). A comparison of the two groups showed that group 1 outperformed group 2 in the EA category (p < 0.0001). However, in the other LEED categories, the differences between the two groups were not significant (p ≥ 0.0761). As a result, group 1 outperformed group 2 in terms of overall LEED points (p = 0.0048). The LCA of EAc1 showed that group 1 enacted the lowest environmental damage when compared to group 2 (p = 0.0040). The environmental assessment of LEED-certified projects can help green building managers choose the most sustainable certification strategy.

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Strategies for LEED-NC-Certified Projects in Germany and Results of Their Life Cycle Assessment

Pushkar

2023

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“…These “serious games” are carefully constructed environments in which “players” engage with content and attempt to achieve certain objectives or aims within the confines of set gameplay rules. Their value is becoming increasingly recognized in capacity development and increasing competencies for sustainable water management in Germany (Sewilam et al, 2017) as well as being included in disaster and flood‐based educational curricula for school children in various countries, including the Netherlands and Brazil (Bosschaart et al, 2016; de Mendonca et al, 2019).…”

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Serious gaming in flood risk management

2022

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Serious gaming is increasingly used to explore important real-world problems and a growing number of serious games are addressing flood-related issues. However, there has been limited synthesis of these attempts and their contributions to the ongoing shift toward a more holistic and governance-based flood resilience perspective in flood risk management (FRM). This international review collates and analyses these attempts in order to develop a knowledge base of serious gaming in the field of FRM. It contains 37 games that were developed with different rationales that include engaging players in the topic of FRM, supporting practice by exploring future options through collaboration, improving communication of FRM, as educational tools, and to collect research data. The gameplay countries and player characteristics, game characteristics, relevance to FRM, game rationales, and collection of data are explored in this paper. Identified serious games provided an unconventional and entertaining approach to engage stakeholders on flood-related issues. The review analyzed the serious games in light of the shift toward flood resilience and identified limitations in the documentation of serious games and their potential in understanding the longer-term impacts of gameplay on players.Furthermore, the vast majority of reviewed games were played in a single country and missed out on understanding the cultural production and perspectives of FRM that could support cross-cultural learning and inspiration for future FRM strategies. Overall, the review identified an important role for serious games in the shift toward governance and the adoption of more holistic flood resilience perspectives.

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Innovative Approaches to Teaching Sustainable Development

Smith¹

2019

Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education

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Competence-based and game-based capacity development for sustainable water management in Germany

Cited by 7 publications

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Strategies for LEED-NC-Certified Projects in Germany and Results of Their Life Cycle Assessment

Strategies for LEED-NC-Certified Projects in Germany and Results of Their Life Cycle Assessment

Serious gaming in flood risk management

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Sustainable Development

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