Learning about climate-related risks: decisions of Northern Thailand fish farmers in a role-playing simulation game

Lebel, Phimphakan; Sriyasak, Patcharawalai; Kallayanamitra, Chalisa; Duangsuwan, Chatta; Lebel, Louis

doi:10.1007/s10113-015-0880-4

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“…Men who expressed feeling excited or thrilled chose higher densities (i.e. riskier decisions) than women in the game (Lebel et al 2016b). Women and men who said they felt relaxed played the game equally well, but when they did not feel relaxed women did better than men.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…A role-playing simulation game on hand-held tables was used to investigate risk decisions of fish farmers in more detail (Lebel et al 2016b). In the game, farmers had to choose between stocking low, intermediate or high numbers of fish, with the latter being a riskier option; higher pay-offs if successful, and larger losses if it flooded.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Gender and the management of climate‐related risks in Northern Thailand

Lebel¹,

Lebel²,

Lebel³

2014

Int Social Sci J

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In much past research on the sustainability of natural resource management, gender was either ignored or women were essentialised as care‐takers or victims. Recent programmes on disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change seem to be retracing these myths. There is a need for more critical research on how gender influences the experience and management of climate‐related risks. This paper draws on a set of earlier studies to explore the influences of gender on climate risk management by farming households in northern Thailand. We find that women fish farmers perceived greater climate‐related risks to profits, and this corresponded with attaching greater importance to risk management practices at the farm and community levels. Women and men crop farmers had very similar perceptions of changing drought risks. Research on the roles of women in community‐level water management, and gendered social norms suggest that it will be more difficult for women to reduce risks to their farms at the larger, collective, scales than it is for men. This study shows that gender can influence risk‐taking and decision‐making and therefore should be taken into account when strengthening climate risk management practices or designing adaptation interventions.

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Gender and the management of climate‐related risks in Northern Thailand

Lebel¹,

Lebel²,

Lebel³

2014

Int Social Sci J

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“…That is, based on the compilation of historical data, economic levels and policy preferences may be factors influencing the trade-offs affecting urban development and climate DRR that existed in the historical process of the Yudai Trench. Furthermore, Lebel et al [34] considered that risk decision making is influenced by an individual's risk knowledge.…”

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“…Additionally, despite the statistically significant differences on the level of Effectiveness in Climate DRR between T1 and T2 by the end of the game, it was found that the gap narrowed significantly in the later stage of the game (Figure 3). It may depend on the player's self-learning when faced with the climate hazards [34,52]. This view is well supported by the results of the qualitative interviews, with some in T1 saying they prefer the latter stages of the game to the earlier stages, because at that time, they found they can understand how to play and make better decisions according to the understanding of the impact of climate hazards: "At first, I didn't know what the implications of the hazards would be.…”

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Playing for a Resilient Future: A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexity of the Interaction among Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and Urban Development

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Guo

Jiang

2021

IJERPH

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Urban development and disaster risk are deeply linked, especially now when we are facing increasingly frequent climate change. Hence, knowledge of the potential trade-offs between urban development and disaster risk reduction (DRR) may have potential to build a resilient and sustainable future. The objectives of this study are (1) to present education for a sustainability (EfS) program and to evaluate its performance: a serious game of knowledge communication for the interactions among climate change, disaster risk, and urban development; (2) to explore factors that will influence the players’ decision making in the trade-offs between urban development and DRR under an urbanization background through counterfactual scenarios constructed by a series of serious games. The Yudai Trench, once a critical component of the urban green infrastructure of ancient Guangzhou, has disappeared under rapid urban expansion, leaving the city exposed to environmental hazards caused by climate change. Is the disappearance of the Yudai Trench an inevitable event in the progress of urbanization? To answer this question, the study constructed counterfactual scenarios by recuring the historical progress through the same serious game. Gameplay involved the players’ decision making with associated impacts on the urbanization progress and the DRR in diverse climate hazard scenarios. For this study, 107 undergraduates from related majors, who are also would-be policymakers, were selected as players. The methodology combined questionnaire survey and participant observation complemented by interviews. The t-test results indicated that undergraduates’ knowledge levels had significant positive changes after the end of the serious game. Importantly, the results showed that the knowledge could potentially contribute to the players’ decision-making process for DRR by assisting them in making pre-decision. Beside this knowledge, the results expanded the range of influencing factors and solutions reported by previous literature on DRR under an urbanization background against climate hazards by constructing counterfactual scenarios, e.g., higher economic levels and policy incentives. In this study, the serious game was evaluated as an innovative communication and the EfS method in counterfactual scenarios. These findings of the study provide a reference for future practice, policymaking, and decision making so as to help harness lessons learned from unrealized environmental hazards to support a more resilient future through informed policies and plans.

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“…They reflect on how role-playing games allowed for discussions during which players shared information that the research team needed and that would not be effectively communicated in an interview. Lebel [14] used a serious game in a similar way-albeit combined with other methods of data collection-in a case of fish farming in Thailand. Meinzen-Dick et al [15] used serious games in field experiments in India, while Bell et al [16] used (a tablet-PC-based) serious games in field experiments about an irrigation system in Pakistan.…”

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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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Learning about climate-related risks: decisions of Northern Thailand fish farmers in a role-playing simulation game

Cited by 39 publications

References 44 publications

Gender and the management of climate‐related risks in Northern Thailand

Gender and the management of climate‐related risks in Northern Thailand

Playing for a Resilient Future: A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexity of the Interaction among Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and Urban Development

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

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