Social strategy games in communicating trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation in cities

Juhola, Sirkku; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Suarez, Janot Mendler de; Suarez, Pablo

doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2013.04.003

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“…Serious games are designed not just for fun but with an educational purpose (Mendler de Suarez et al 2012) and are useful tools to simplify and clearly represent complex problems (Greenblat 1988;Juhola et al 2013). Players make decisions, pay the consequences, and interact (Greenblat 1988), generating meaning and interpretation (Malaby 2007).…”

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“…For example, ''Paying for Predictions'' was designed for humanitarian workers, to encourage reflection on the value of forecasts of extreme events (Mendler de Suarez et al 2012). There is also a growing body of academic literature on interactive climate games, including for farmers to learn about changing risks of drought (Patt 2001) and index insurance (Patt et al 2009), to investigate river management under climate change (Valkering et al 2012), and to focus on other climate policy contexts (Haug et al 2011;Juhola et al 2013). …”

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Using a Game to Engage Stakeholders in Extreme Event Attribution Science

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The impacts of weather and climate-related disasters are increasing, and climate change can exacerbate many disasters. Effectively communicating climate risk and integrating science into policy requires scientists and stakeholders to work together. But dialogue between scientists and policymakers can be challenging given the inherently multidimensional nature of the issues at stake when managing climate risks. Building on the growing use of serious games to create dialogue between stakeholders, we present a new game for policymakers called Climate Attribution Under Loss and Damage: Risking, Observing, Negotiating (CAULDRON). CAULDRON aims to communicate understanding of the science attributing extreme events to climate change in a memorable and compelling way, and create space for dialogue around policy decisions addressing changing risks and loss and damage from climate change. We describe the process of developing CAULDRON, and draw on observations of players and their feedback to demonstrate its potential to facilitate the interpretation of probabilistic climate information and the understanding of its relevance to informing policy. Scientists looking to engage with stakeholders can learn valuable lessons in adopting similar innovative approaches. The suitability of games depends on the policy context but, if used appropriately, experiential learning can drive coproduced understanding and meaningful dialogue.

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Using a Game to Engage Stakeholders in Extreme Event Attribution Science

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“…The nature of the two issues also came up in the results, i.e., mitigation and adaptation have different beneficiaries and strategic aims, goals and objectives (McEvoy et al 2006). Lack of financial resources or cost of measures can also lead to a situation where actors make a choice between adaptation and mitigation, and this can also be caused by a lack of financial or institutional support from the national level (Roberts et al 2012;Juhola et al 2013). Finally, concerns over equity, both social and environmental, arose as reasons for balancing between adaptation and mitigation (Dymén and Langlais 2013;Juhola et al 2013).…”

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“…Lack of financial resources or cost of measures can also lead to a situation where actors make a choice between adaptation and mitigation, and this can also be caused by a lack of financial or institutional support from the national level (Roberts et al 2012;Juhola et al 2013). Finally, concerns over equity, both social and environmental, arose as reasons for balancing between adaptation and mitigation (Dymén and Langlais 2013;Juhola et al 2013). Administrative structures are also cited as a source of conflict: unclear allocation of responsibilities for carrying out measures between different actors is problematic (Laukkonen et al 2009).…”

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Inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation: a systematic literature review

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Based on a systematic literature review method that consists of a bibliometric and a content analysis, we examine the current state of research on climate change adaptation and mitigation inter-relationships. Although systematic literature reviews have been applied in other research fields such as health sciences, there are only a few examples in social and environmental sciences. First, we investigate in which research fields the inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation have been studied and how they have been conceptualised. Second, we analyse what kinds of synergies, trade-offs or conflicts between adaptation and mitigation policies and practices can be identified particularly in urban studies. Third, based on selected urban studies, we examine how inter-relationships between the two policy objectives or practical measures have been studied, in which context, and what is the main outcome of these studies. We also present what suggestions there are for solving conflicts, and how synergies can be enhanced in urban areas. The results indicate that there is value in examining the two together since urban areas are balancing between adaptation and mitigation and have to negotiate trade-offs at different scales.Climatic Change

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“…Environmental management games have long been used to support learning and to promote awareness of sustainability challenges [19] in a broad range of policy domains, such as climate change mitigation and adaptation [20,21], flood risk management [22][23][24], and land use and urban planning [25]. Environmental management games have been used both at different levels of education systems as well as in public policy to support social learning and encourage collective action [26][27][28].…”

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Exploring the Role of Relational Practices in Water Governance Using a Game-Based Approach

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Koch³

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Abstract:The growing complexity and interdependence of water management processes requires the involvement of multiple stakeholders in water governance. Multi-party collaboration is increasingly vital at both the strategy development and implementation levels. Multi-party collaboration involves a process of joint decision-making among key stakeholders in a problem domain directed towards the future of that domain. However, the common goal is not present from the beginning; rather, the common goal emerges during the process of collaboration. Unfortunately, when the conflicting interests of different actors are at stake, the large majority of environmental multi-party efforts often do not reliably deliver sustainable improvements to policy and/or practice. One of the reasons for this, which has been long established by many case studies, is that social learning with a focus on relational practices is missing. The purpose of this paper is to present the design and initial results of a pilot study that utilized a game-based approach to explore the effects of relational practices on the effectiveness of water governance. This paper verifies the methods used by addressing the following question: are game mechanisms, protocols for facilitation and observation, the recording of decisions and results, and participant surveys adequate to reliably test hypotheses about behavioral decisions related to water governance? We used the "Lords of the Valley" (LOV) game, which focuses on the local-level management of a hypothetical river valley involving many stakeholders. We used an observation protocol to collect data on the quality of relational practices and compared this data with the quantitative outcomes achieved by participants in the game. In this pilot study, we ran the game three times with different groups of participants, and here we provide the outcomes within the context of verifying and improving the methods.

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Social strategy games in communicating trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation in cities

Cited by 34 publications

References 43 publications

Using a Game to Engage Stakeholders in Extreme Event Attribution Science

Using a Game to Engage Stakeholders in Extreme Event Attribution Science

Inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation: a systematic literature review

Exploring the Role of Relational Practices in Water Governance Using a Game-Based Approach

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