Farmer Options and Risks in Complex Ecological-Social systems: The FORCES game designed for agroforestry management of upper watersheds

Relational rationality in land- and water use: facing Mount Kenya in times of change

“…In Chapter 4, the designing of KILIMO NA MAJI Game, is based on the Actors, Resources, Dynamics, and Interactions (ARDI) framework (Etienne et al, 2011). Games that have used similar approach include FORCES, a single-player game designed to engage individual farmers in choosing between annual crops and trees for financial benefits and ecological impacts (Sari et al, 2023); the H2OURS game designed to trigger collaboration in restoration of hydrological conditions, ENGAGE game, designed and used in the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro North River basin to strengthen local stakeholders engagement in addressing human-water related challenges in the region. A contribution of the Chapter into the game design framework is inclusion of 'Relations' into the ARDI (R-ARDI).…”

“…Chapter 4 and 5 provides an analysis of games outcomes using the solution space and relational rationality approach. The solution space has been used in other serious games such as the FORCES game (Sari et al, 2023), H2OURS game , and ENGAGE game . A contribution of the Chapter is analysis of the position of a game's outcome on the solution space from a relational rationality perspective.…”