WeShareIt Game: Strategic Foresight for Climate-change Induced Disaster Risk Reduction

Onencan, Abby Muricho; Walle, Bartel Van de; Enserink, Bert; Chelang’a, James; Kulei, Felix

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.185

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“…They can also act as conflict resolution tools, through reflection, information sharing and debate across groups with diverging opinions and beliefs (Medema et al 2016). Second, the importance of trust, trust building, and limitations of trust are apparent (Onecan et al 2016, Salvini et al 2016b, Medema et al 2016 and affect the outcomes of the game. Third, understanding others is necessary to navigate serious games.…”

Section: Relational Learningmentioning

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

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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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Section: Relational Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Flood

Cradock-Henry

Blackett

et al. 2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

166

143

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“…The Nzoia WeShareIt game was inspired by the original Nzoia WeShareIt game, which had been designed for the Nile river basin where different upstream and downstream countries had to negotiate to earn 'happy faces' [16][17][18][19]21,67]. Later, we customized the game for the smaller Nzoia basin within the larger Nile river ecosystem [17,20,67].…”

Section: The Nzoia Weshareit Water Policy Gamementioning

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“…Second, players had their own individual goals of making their county government residents happy. Third, the game was designed to ensure that the competition between the shared goal and the individual goals is healthy and leads to the development of complementary roles and niches within the basin [16][17][18][19][20][21]41,67].…”

Section: The Nzoia Weshareit Water Policy Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of Personal Attributes and Demographic Diversity on Nzoia Basin Negotiation Outcomes

Onencan

Enserink

Walle

2019

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The Kenyan government has made significant advances in water resources management at the local authority (county) level with little or no cooperation at the drainage basin level. Research on critical determinants of cooperation amongst transboundary water negotiation teams is limited. In this paper, we assess whether personal attribute diversity (PAD) is a stronger factor than demographic diversity (gender, age, and education play) in determining whether the negotiation team will cooperate or make unilateral actions. We use a negotiation game to study decisions taken by water policymakers. After that, we conduct a multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) to assess the influence of PAD, gender, age, and education on water negotiation outcomes. The findings indicate that PAD plays a significant role in determining whether the group will cooperate or compete. Gender, education, and age barely influence the outcome. Only upon removal of the PAD variable do we see an increase in the discriminant power of gender and education. Age has minimal influence on the negotiation outcomes. We apply the research at a lower level of governance (Nzoia River Basin). However, results might be extrapolated to a bigger basin, like the Nile Basin, through future multiple level analysis which takes account of the complex socio-technical systems.

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“…Most of these commitments can be initiated through individual and joint action [13,14,[17][18][19][20]26], without being contingent on financial, investment, technical and human resource support, as stated in the SNC [33,34]. Awareness of the role of government and the community in implementing some of Sustainability 2018, 10,1929 5 of 30 these actions could improve decision-making with limited or no financial support [14].…”

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“…For instance, increased awareness of the contribution of the following practices to GHG emissions may lead to positive actions: non-electric vehicles, hydroelectric power production, meat consumption from ruminants, poor land and animal husbandry practices, poor waste management practices, cutting of trees and the increased use of wood fuel [13,17]. This increased awareness may also contribute to informed decision making [18].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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From Paris Agreement to Action: Enhancing Climate Change Familiarity and Situation Awareness

Onencan

Walle

2018

Sustainability

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The Paris Agreement was a monumental stride towards global climate change governance. It unlocked the climate change gridlock, introducing country-subjective commitments and a five-year review mechanism. To support the implementation of the Paris Agreement, we designed the Nzoia WeShareIt climate change game. Game sessions were conducted in June and July 2015, and 35 respondents completed a pre-and post-game situation awareness (SA) questionnaire and an in-game performance measurement system. The questionnaire uses a 10-dimensional situation awareness rating technique (SART). Subsequently, we conducted a factorial MANOVA (multivariate analysis of variance) to assess the interaction effects between familiarity, team, and gender. Results indicate an increase in situation awareness. However, policymakers' action was not contingent on the increased SA only, there was a significant interaction effect between familiarity and SA, to lead to climate change actions. Therefore, we recommend more emphasis on the role of familiarity in enhancing SA and, subsequently, supporting the implementation to the Paris five-year review country commitments. We also recommend the increased usage of symbols and capacity development of policymakers on connective capacity to enable them to span the climate change boundaries.

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WeShareIt Game: Strategic Foresight for Climate-change Induced Disaster Risk Reduction

Cited by 35 publications

References 13 publications

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

Influence of Personal Attributes and Demographic Diversity on Nzoia Basin Negotiation Outcomes

From Paris Agreement to Action: Enhancing Climate Change Familiarity and Situation Awareness

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