Integrating Climate Change Mechanics Into a Common Pool Resource Game

Fennewald, Thomas; Kievit-Kylar, Brent

doi:10.1177/1046878112467618

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“…Understanding peoples' values, beliefs and norms, and challenging them to change behaviour and take action is central to climate change adaptation (Gifford 2011). The delayed effects of many of the processes and impacts of climate change leads to a direct impact of individual's beliefs and resulting actions in the face of climate change (Fennewald and Kievit-Kylar 2012). To design is to create meaning and to engage with games helps to challenge questionable mental models, challenge beliefs and unpack values .…”

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“…Mistakes here can lead to player confusion, disagreement, and increased likelihood of environmental degradation; i.e. the more delayed the effect the fewer players are able to coordinate their efforts (Fennewald and Kievit-Kylar 2012) and make connections between choices and outcomes. Careful consideration must be given to address this issue in game design (ibid).…”

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“…A number of challenges to effective game design and engagement have been identified in the literature included in this review. Specifically, this includes: overcoming the limitations of one-off engagement(Medema et al 2016); capturing complexity, Eisenack 2012, Fennewald and Kievit-Kylar 2012, Hill et al 2014, Juhola et al 2013, Lamarque et al 2013, Parker et al 2016, and the difficulties of longterm planning under deep uncertainty, Haug et al 2011, Jones et al 2014. These challenges and solutions, where identified, are discussed below.…”

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Adaptive and interactive climate futures: systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making

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Cradock-Henry

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Climate change is already having adverse impacts on ecosystems, communities and economic activities through higher temperatures, prolonged droughts, and more frequent extremes. However, a gap remains between public understanding, scientific knowledge about climate change, and changes in behaviour to effect adaptation. 'Serious games'-games used for purposes other than entertainment-are one way to reduce this adaptation deficit by enhancing opportunities for social learning and enabling positive action. Games can provide communities with the opportunity to interactively explore different climate futures, build capability and capacity for dealing with complex challenges, and socialise adaptation priorities with diverse publics. Using systematic review methods, this paper identifies, reviews, synthesises and assesses the literature on serious games for climate change adaptation. To determine where and how impact is achieved, we draw on an evaluation framework grounded in social learning, to assess which combinations of cognitive (knowledge and thinking), normative (norms and approaches) and relational (how people connect and network building) learning are achieved. Results show that factors influencing the overall success in influencing behaviour and catalysing learning for adaptation include generating high levels of interand intra-level trust between researchers, practitioners and community participants; strong debriefing and evaluation practices; and the use of experienced and knowledgeable facilitators. These results can help inform future game design, and research methodologies to develop robust ways for engaging with stakeholders and end users, and enhance learning effects for resilient climate futures.

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Adaptive and interactive climate futures: systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making

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“…Eco has a strong focus on cooperation (Getting Started, 2019), and players need to form groups in order to maintain balance in their simulated ecosystem. This mechanic sets it apart from more traditional zero-sum games, where competition, sabotage and fighting results in only one clear winner (Fennewald and Kievit-Kylar, 2013). Each player on a server picks a profession and develops it by acquiring role-based skills (Professions, 2019).…”

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Gaming Green: The Educational Potential of Eco – A Digital Simulated Ecosystem

Fjællingsdal

Klöckner

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Research into the use of videogames in education is on the rise, and they are cementing their position as part of the modernized, digital classroom. Sustainability education has also become a subject of interest among environmentally minded game developers and understanding the educational impact of such games is rapidly becoming an important field. This study examined the educational potential of the digital simulated ecosystem known as Eco, in order to reveal how playing Eco might promote environmental consciousness surrounding ecosystems. Qualitative data from seven respondents were subjected to a thematic analysis, revealing two main themes that highlight both gamebased learning outcomes as well as barriers against learning. The findings indicate that Eco is a viable tool for promoting some aspects of environmental consciousness about ecosystems, and suggestions for future implementation of Eco are provided.

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“…Most of the reviewed games are role--play and management--games that combine a global and local level of information. One of these recently developed games is presented by Fennewald and Kievit--Kylar (2013). In their common pool resource game they focus on increasing awareness of climate change and use of resources as a social dilemma.…”

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Mindergie: A Pervasive Learning Game for Pro-environmental Behaviour at the Workplace

Kalz

Börner

Ternier

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Seamless Learning in the Age of Mobile Connectivity

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Abstract. This chapter reports about a pervasive learning game to increase the environmental awareness and pro--environmental behaviour at the workplace. Based on a discussion of the theoretical background and related work we introduce the game design and game elements. Results of a formative evaluation study are presented and discussed. Results show that incentive mechanisms are less important than challenging game components that involve employees in proposing solutions for energy conservation at the workplace. Conclusions are drawn for future games and energy conservation activities at the workplace.

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Integrating Climate Change Mechanics Into a Common Pool Resource Game

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Adaptive and interactive climate futures: systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making

Adaptive and interactive climate futures: systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making

Gaming Green: The Educational Potential of Eco – A Digital Simulated Ecosystem

Mindergie: A Pervasive Learning Game for Pro-environmental Behaviour at the Workplace

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