Designing and implementing a Role-Playing Game: A tool to explain factors, decision making and landscape transformation

Pak, Manuela Vieira; Brieva, Daniel Castillo

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.015

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“…Carton and Thissen conclude that the maps proved effective for supporting collaboration for designing new visions about water management. Other studies featured large-format printed background maps for drawing and presenting plans during collaborative planning sessions (e.g., Mayer, Carton, De Jong, Leijten, & Dammers, 2004;Vieria Pak & Castillo Brieva, 2010). Landscape visualization has also been used for communicating spatial scenarios in stakeholder workshops about environmental problem solving and has proved useful for increasing stakeholders' understanding of a decision problem (e.g., Bishop, Stock, & Williams, 2009;Sharma, Pettit, Bishop, Chan, & Sheth, 2011).…”

Section: Maps For Communicationmentioning

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Spatial decision support for collaborative land use planning workshops

Arciniegas

Janssen

2012

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Section: Maps For Communicationmentioning

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Spatial decision support for collaborative land use planning workshops

Arciniegas

Janssen

2012

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…They have also been used to test scenarios, facilitate negotiation support and validate multi-agent simulation (MAS) models (Castella et al 2005;D' Aquino et al 2003;Villamor 2012). RPGs are also used to reveal facts that could not easily be communicated through a conventional means of data collection (Vieira Pak and Castillo Brieva 2010;Villamor and van Noordwijk 2011), and to demonstrate that individuals behave differently in a group setting. Based on the literature review conducted by Mai et al (2011), RPGs combined with household surveys have never been employed in gender analysis in forestry research.…”

Section: Gender and Land Use Analysismentioning

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Gender influences decisions to change land use practices in the tropical forest margins of Jambi, Indonesia

Villamor

Amaruzaman

Noordwijk

2013

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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This study explores the role of gender as a factor in decision making about alternative land use options and in responses to new investment opportunities, which has received little attention to date. An observational study to determine the different factors affecting male and female decisions to change land use at the individual level in a forest margin landscape in Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia) was combined with a set of role playing games (RPGs) designed to assess participant responses in a simulated social setting of women-only and men-only groups. The RPG included simulated agents offering new opportunities to convert or conserve agroforest. In the study area, rubber (Hevea braziliensis) agroforests that support high biodiversity and carbon storage are giving way to monoculture rubber and oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations. When women from both the upland and lowland villages played the RPGs, external investors proposing logging or oil palm conversion were approached very positively and the resulting land use change was more dynamic and extensive than in the equivalent men-only groups. Consequently, women outperformed men in achieving income targets. In lowland areas gender is strongly associated with land use change, while in the uplands the level of conservation awareness plays a more crucial role in the maintenance of rubber agroforests. Based on the data, and contrary to expectations and gender stereotypes, it is expected that the greater involvement of women in landscape level decision making will increase emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the area, posing further challenges to efforts to reduce such emissions.

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“…The social and reflective aspects of deliberation are such that it challenges participants to think critically about their role within the social system, and in this sense a deliberative process can be both insightful, in as far as it can represent a condensed snapshot of the social dynamics within the system (Vieira Pak and Castillo Brieva 2010), and transformative, in as far as it can alter these social dynamics by offering an opportunity for interaction and collaborative problem-solving between stakeholders (Reed 2007;Stringer et al 2006). In fact, the deliberative process itself has been used in some research to directly simulate the socioecological system through the use of role-playing games (Souchère et al 2010;Vieira Pak and Castillo Brieva 2010).…”

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Deliberative assessment in complex socioecological systems: recommendations for environmental assessment in drylands

Geist

Ioris

2011

Environ Monit Assess

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Desertification is a complex process, characterised not only by a damaged ecology but also by conflict over access to scarce resources and trade-offs between the needs of multiple stakeholders at multiple scales. As such, orthodox approaches to environmental assessment in drylands, which rely solely on ecological expertise, are gradually losing legitimacy and greater attention is being given to integrated and participatory assessment approaches, which draw on multiple sources of knowledge in order to accurately describe complex socioecological processes. Moreover, there is growing recognition that successful management of desertification requires a strategy that can accommodate the multiple and often competing needs of contemporary and future stakeholders. In light of these conceptual advances, this paper highlights seven key criteria that dryland environmental assessments must meet: (1) accurately understand complex socioecological system processes, (2) focus on slow variables, (3) integrate multiple scales of analysis, (4) integrate multiple stakeholder perspectives and values, (5) ensure that future generations are fairly represented, (6) ensure that less powerful stakeholders are fairly represented and (7) integrate local and scientific knowledge. The virtues and challenges of deliberative environmental assessments, a novel subset of participatory environmental assessment approaches which places emphasis on social learning, argumentation and critical reflection, are considered in relation to each of these requirements. We argue that deliberative approaches have the potential to achieve accurate, progressive and integrated assessment of dryland environments.

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Designing and implementing a Role-Playing Game: A tool to explain factors, decision making and landscape transformation

Cited by 43 publications

References 8 publications

Spatial decision support for collaborative land use planning workshops

Spatial decision support for collaborative land use planning workshops

Gender influences decisions to change land use practices in the tropical forest margins of Jambi, Indonesia

Deliberative assessment in complex socioecological systems: recommendations for environmental assessment in drylands

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