Serious Games and Sustainability

Peralta, Tania Ouariachi; Olvera‐Lobo, María‐Dolores; Pérez, José Gutiérrez

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63951-2_326-1

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“…This undisciplinary science, defined as a "problem-based, There is also a need for professional training and development initiatives to introduce professionals to the framing of groundwater-connected systems. These could include practitioner-focused seminars; online guides to groundwater-connected systems concepts, methods, and data; and interactive workshops that could use agent-based models or serious games (Ouariachi et al 2018) that would enable participants to grapple with complexity, adaptation, feedbacks, and uncertainty in a risk-free environment while gaining practice working in inter-and trans-disciplinary teams.…”

Section: Implications For Education Training and Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Groundwater connections and sustainability in social-ecological systems

Huggins¹,

Gleeson²,

Castilla-Rho³

et al. 2023

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Groundwater is embedded in social and ecological systems but the complexity of these interactions is not well represented in conventional approaches to study and promote groundwater sustainability. We argue an important shift is necessary in groundwater sustainability thinking: towards prioritizing the functions of groundwater, and the services that make it a critical resource, and away from focussing on the resource in isolation. We articulate a new perspective for groundwater sustainability based around the concept of groundwater-connected systems—any system with dynamic relationships with groundwater, which can include ecological, social, and Earth systems. We draw from the emerging field of sustainability science and consider groundwater-connected systems to be specific forms of both social-ecological systems and complex adaptive systems. We argue this interdisciplinary systems-based perspective is necessary to connect existing research domains and paradigms, and provides additional concepts and tools from the established literatures of social-ecological systems and complex adaptive systems to improve how we study and manage groundwater-connected systems for resilience and sustainability. We provide a theoretical foundation for this perspective and discuss its practical implications which span data collection initiatives, scientific investigations, governance, and management approaches. Amidst calls for innovation in the groundwater field, we argue that embracing the groundwater-connected system perspective can underpin a methodologically pluralistic, interdisciplinary, community-wide, and bold new wave of groundwater research to better understand and promote groundwater sustainability in the complex systems groundwater is embedded within.

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Section: Implications For Education Training and Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Groundwater connections and sustainability in social-ecological systems

Huggins¹,

Gleeson²,

Castilla-Rho³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…There is also a need for professional training and development initiatives to introduce professionals to the framing of groundwater-connected systems. These could include practitioner-focused seminars; online guides to groundwater-connected systems concepts, methods, and data; and interactive workshops that could use agent-based models or serious games (e.g., Ouariachi et al 2018) that would enable participants to grapple with complexity, adaptation, feedback mechanisms, and uncertainty in a risk-free environment while gaining practice working in inter-and transdisciplinary teams. Finally, the framing of groundwater-connected systems can be a powerful tool to build public awareness on the importance of groundwater in everyday life and sustainable, equitable futures.…”

Section: Implications For Education Training and Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Groundwater Connections and Sustainability in Social‐Ecological Systems

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Groundwater resources are connected with social, economic, ecological, and Earth systems. We introduce the framing of groundwater-connected systems to better represent the nature and complexity of these connections in data collection, scientific investigations, governance and management approaches, and groundwater education. Groundwater-connected systems are social, economic, ecological, and Earth systems that interact with groundwater, such as irrigated agriculture, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, and cultural relationships to groundwater expressions such as springs and rivers. Groundwater-connected systems form social-ecological systems with complex behaviors such as feedbacks, nonlinear processes, multiple stable system states, and path dependency. These complex behaviors are only visible through this integrated system framing and are not endogenous properties of physical groundwater systems. The framing is syncretic as it aims to provide a common conceptual foundation for the growing disciplines of socio-hydrogeology, eco-hydrogeology, groundwater governance, and hydro-social groundwater analysis. The framing also facilitates greater alignment between the groundwater sustainability discourse and emerging sustainability concepts and principles. Aligning with these concepts and principles presents groundwater sustainability as more than a physical state to be reached; and argues that place-based and multifaceted goals, values, justice, knowledge systems, governance, and management must continually be integrated to maintain groundwater's social, ecological, and Earth system functions. The groundwater-connected systems framing can underpin a broad, methodologically pluralistic, and community-driven new wave of data collection and analysis, research, governance, management, and education. These developments, together, can invigorate efforts to foster sustainable groundwater futures in the complex systems groundwater is embedded within.

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“…Finally, virtual reality allows immersive hands‐on experience to tackle environmental issues in a curated digital world. The example of a VR‐integrated game is Cleanopolis VR in which the player can join the game by using a VR headset to learn about CO 2 while battling alongside Captain Clean to improve air quality in the world (Ouariachi et al, 2019).…”

Section: Current Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Serious games for environmental education

Tan

Nurul‐Asna

2023

Integrative Conservation

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Serious games are increasingly popular in multiple fields, including education and environmental engagement. We conducted a systematic review to examine the reasons for this increasing popularity, the features of successful serious games and the current trend of serious games application in environmental education. Our systematic search revealed 56 records of papers (from years 2009 to 2023) on the use of serious games for environmental education. Thirty-five were published in the recent 5 years reflecting a growing interest in this area. The games were aimed at imparting knowledge (N = 28), changing attitude (N = 28) and changing behaviour (N = 19). Reasons for the increased application of serious games include the raising awareness on serious games and growing investment in serious games development and research, as well as better technological access through mobile devices. Successful serious games exhibit the following features: an immersive experience, meaningful engagement, a learn-by-doing involvement, simulation of real-world environmental problems, autonomy in game decisions and the presence of a guiding host. This review also revealed two categories of digital serious games: computer games (N = 14) and mobile apps (N = 11), and three categories of physical games: board games (N = 6), card game (N = 1) and role-playing games (N = 2). The gaps include (1) the lack of in-game experience data that limits our understanding of the impacts of commercial games, (2) variation in game experience and conservation experience among participants and how this translates to the impacts of serious games, and (3) lack of understanding of how the effects of serious games with high complexities on adults learning. Serious games are increasingly being digitised and moving towards location-based games, alternate reality, augmented reality and virtual reality. These games can facilitate interaction between learners and the natural environment, and in turn strengthen environmental awareness and appreciation.

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Serious Games and Sustainability

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Groundwater connections and sustainability in social-ecological systems

Groundwater connections and sustainability in social-ecological systems

Groundwater Connections and Sustainability in Social‐Ecological Systems

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