Development and testing of a river basin management simulation game for integrated management of the Magdalena-Cauca river basin

Craven, Joanne; Angarita, Héctor; Corzo, Gerald; Vasquez, Daniel W.

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.01.002

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“…First, educational games are broader in scope and often are about a general issue, at a larger geographical and/or administrative scale, e.g., climate change [1], and over-fishing [25]. However, games meant to perform as interventions often target a rather narrowly identified issue in natural resource and environmental governance, and this much often at a local scale [15,28,32,[37][38][39][40]. Serious games meant to perform as interventions often integrate contextual features and have finer levels of detail, to ensure that local stakeholders, or problem owners, get motivated and engaged in game-play and become part of the change processes the research team envisaged.…”

Section: Games As Interventionsmentioning

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Conceptualizing Serious Games as a Learning-Based Intervention in the Context of Natural Resources and Environmental Governance

Rodela

Ligtenberg

Bosma

2019

Water

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The use of serious games in the governance of natural resources and the environment is progressively increasing and includes games used for research and data collection, teaching and training, and fostering a change of practices. However, this diversity remains underexplored and underreported. In view of a growing interest in the use of serious games in natural resource and environmental governance, the absence of discussions about how differences in intended use and delivery influence the performance, assessment, and outcomes of games is problematic. Here we present an inventory, and a description, of such different uses then, by focusing on serious games used as interventions, we discuss when, and how, games could be used to generate learning and social learning. To that end we use a narrative review of selected literature, and insight from research on social learning, to develop an inventory of game use, and within that inventory we conceptualize the use of serious games as a social learning intervention. Also, by means of an illustrative case of a serious game (developed as part of the Assessing the Learning Effects of Games on Attitude of Stakeholders toward Sustainable Shrimp Farming – ALEGAMS research project) we reflect on a few key aspects of game use. We suggest that developing a serious game needs several iterations and, although the learning outcomes can be assessed, the impact of games aiming at changes in current practice and policy will likely fall beyond the timespan of usual project periods. This is something future research should consider as it has implications for the research design and methodology.

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Section: Games As Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing Serious Games as a Learning-Based Intervention in the Context of Natural Resources and Environmental Governance

Rodela

Ligtenberg

Bosma

2019

Water

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“…The river load data have a key role in many research and monitoring programs concerning water-quality evaluation, as the load provides an integrated measure of inputs and biogeochemical processes within a watershed (Aulenbach et al, 2016;Cooper and Watts, 2002;Craven et al, 2017;Letcher et al, 2002;Shrestha and Kazama, 2007;Wolfs et al, 2015). Precise and accurate estimates of river nutrients and suspended solid loads are relevant not only to assess the water quality but also to calculate the proportion between point and non-point sources, to highlight critical areas that require effective management strategies, to calibrate catchment-scale models, and to evaluate long-term trends in river load (Chu et al, 2008;Elwan et al, 2018;Littlewood, 1995;Newham et al, 2004;Polyakov et al, 2007;Quilbé et al, 2006).…”

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An R package for estimating river compound load using different methods

Nava

Patelli

Rotiroti

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Environmental Modelling & Software

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The load quantification of solutes and suspended materials in rivers provides meaningful ecological information about watershed functionality. High-frequency measurements of flow are often available, whereas concentration data are commonly recorded at low frequencies. Different calculation methods have been developed by various authors to provide unbiased load estimation. We provide a new R package (RiverLoad) that implements several of the most widely used load estimation algorithms. The package provides an easy-to-use tool to rapidly calculate the load for various compounds and to compare different methods. The package also supplies additional functions to easily organize and analyze the data. A bootstrapping was performed on two example datasets to illustrate the reliability of the methods at different sampling frequencies. The RiverLoad package should make it easier to obtain load data and to compare different estimation algorithms. However, attention must be paid when selecting the method to avoid consistent error in the load estimation.

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“…There is a considerable and fast-growing list of research publications where MSG have been used for IWRM (e.g., [3,10,12,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]). There are a few observations that can be taken from this literature.…”

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Models, Simulations and Games for Water Management: A Comparative Q-Method Study in The Netherlands and China

Zhou

Mayer

2017

Water

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How do policy analysts perceive the various roles that Models, Simulations and Games (MSG) have, or can have in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)? Fifty-five policy analysts in water management in The Netherlands and China were interviewed, following the procedure of the Q-method. Comparative analysis of the combined quantitative and qualitative data show that: (1) The debate on the role of MSG for IWRM is structured around five frames in The Netherlands and three frames in China. (2) The frames in The Netherlands and China are significantly different. (3) In China, there is a predominant frame that perceives MSG for IWRM as data driven simulation technology for rationalization of water management, which is less significant in The Netherlands. (4) The reverse is true with regard to MSG for stakeholder interaction, learning and integrated assessment, which are significant frames in The Netherlands, but not in China. The conclusion is that frame differences can easily confuse professional and academic debate about MSG for water management; within the same institutional and cultural context, but even more so in Netherlands-China co-operation projects. Frames are also relevant when designing, using or evaluating innovative methods for integrated water resources management.

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Development and testing of a river basin management simulation game for integrated management of the Magdalena-Cauca river basin

Cited by 44 publications

References 16 publications

Conceptualizing Serious Games as a Learning-Based Intervention in the Context of Natural Resources and Environmental Governance

Conceptualizing Serious Games as a Learning-Based Intervention in the Context of Natural Resources and Environmental Governance

An R package for estimating river compound load using different methods

Models, Simulations and Games for Water Management: A Comparative Q-Method Study in The Netherlands and China

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