Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking

Claude A. Garcia; Sini Savilaakso; René W. Verburg; Natasha Stoudmann; Philip Fernbach; Steven A. Sloman; Garry D. Peterson; Miguel B. Araújo; Jean-François Bastin; Jürgen Blaser; Laurence Boutinot; Thomas W. Crowther; Hélène Dessard; Anne Dray; Scott Francisco; Jaboury Ghazoul; Laurène Feintrenie; Etienne Hainzelin; Fritz Kleinschroth; Babak Naimi; Ivan P. Novotny; Johan Oszwald; Stephan A. Pietsch; Fabien Quétier; Brian E. Robinson; Marieke Sassen; Plinio Sist; Terry Sunderland; Cédric Vermeulen; Lucienne Wilmé; Sarah J. Wilson; Francisco Zorondo-Rodríguez; Patrick O. Waeber

doi:10.1038/s41893-022-00881-0

Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking

Claude A. Garcia^*, Sini Savilaakso, René W. Verburg, Natasha Stoudmann, Philip Fernbach, Steven A. Sloman, Garry D. Peterson, Miguel B. Araújo, Jean-François Bastin, Jürgen Blaser, Laurence Boutinot, Thomas W. Crowther, Hélène Dessard, Anne Dray, Scott Francisco, Jaboury Ghazoul, Laurène Feintrenie, Etienne Hainzelin, Fritz Kleinschroth, Babak NaimiIvan P. Novotny, Johan Oszwald, Stephan A. Pietsch, Fabien Quétier, Brian E. Robinson, Marieke Sassen, Plinio Sist, Terry Sunderland, Cédric Vermeulen, Lucienne Wilmé, Sarah J. Wilson, Francisco Zorondo-Rodríguez, Patrick O. Waeber

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While the scientific community documents environmental degradation and develops scenarios to identify the operational margins of system Earth, less attention is given to how decisions are made that steer the system in one direction or the other. We propose to use strategy games for this purpose, increasing the representation of human agency in scenario development and creating spaces for deliberation between different worldviews. Played by the right people, strategy games could help break free from established norms and support more transparent democratic dialogues, responding to the human and social limitations of current decision-making.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	464-471
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nature Sustainability
Volume	5
Issue number	6
Early online date	May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00881-0
Publication status	Published - Jun 2022

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Funding Information:
We thank S. Mazas for designing the illustrations; the Forest Stewardship Council Congo Basin Office, its former director M. Auger-Schwartzenberg and his colleagues O. Rickenbach and W. Lawyer for entrusting us with the facilitation of the Regional Working Group on High Conservation Values (HCV-RWG) session in Brazzaville in 2017; and H. Vellema, R. Jezeer, E. Speelman and A. Fellay for their support. The empirical examples given here stem from the work of the CoForTips project (ANR‐12‐EBID‐0002) funded by the ERA-NET BiodivERsA, with the national funders ANR, BELSPO and FWF, as part of the 2012 call for research proposals, and the OPAL project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (r4d-Ecosystems) grant no. 152019. The MineSet model was developed by the CoForSet project, funded by the FRB 2013 call for research proposals 'Scenarios of Biodiversity for Sub-Saharan Africa', with support by the FFEM. MineSet was tested by Tropenbos International at their offices in Wageningen.

Funding Information:
We thank S. Mazas for designing the illustrations; the Forest Stewardship Council Congo Basin Office, its former director M. Auger-Schwartzenberg and his colleagues O. Rickenbach and W. Lawyer for entrusting us with the facilitation of the Regional Working Group on High Conservation Values (HCV-RWG) session in Brazzaville in 2017; and H. Vellema, R. Jezeer, E. Speelman and A. Fellay for their support. The empirical examples given here stem from the work of the CoForTips project (ANR‐12‐EBID‐0002) funded by the ERA-NET BiodivERsA, with the national funders ANR, BELSPO and FWF, as part of the 2012 call for research proposals, and the OPAL project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (r4d-Ecosystems) grant no. 152019. The MineSet model was developed by the CoForSet project, funded by the FRB 2013 call for research proposals 'Scenarios of Biodiversity for Sub-Saharan Africa', with support by the FFEM. MineSet was tested by Tropenbos International at their offices in Wageningen.

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Garcia, C. A., Savilaakso, S., Verburg, R. W., Stoudmann, N., Fernbach, P., Sloman, S. A., Peterson, G. D., Araújo, M. B., Bastin, J.-F., Blaser, J., Boutinot, L., Crowther, T. W., Dessard, H., Dray, A., Francisco, S., Ghazoul, J., Feintrenie, L., Hainzelin, E., Kleinschroth, F., ... Waeber, P. O. (2022). Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking. Nature Sustainability, 5(6), 464-471. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00881-0

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