experimental games

EXPERIMENTAL GAMES

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The game helps explore if new commercialization activities might result in land conflict, and stimulates more coordinated stakeholder collaboration.
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The new game highlights the importance of inclusive planning and decision-making in natural resource management.
Publications
Select 2019 journal articles from PIM and partners on natural resource governance.
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There is growing awareness that water management rules must be adapted to the specific social-ecological-technical context - but this remains a major challenge.
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Ruth Meinzen-Dick discusses how games could be used to help people cooperate to sustainably manage water, a classic common pool resource - in the Science's "Tragedy revisited", a new paper to mark the 50th anniversary of the famous essay by Garrett Hardin.
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I grew up in Tamil Nadu, south India. It was a dry area, but a good well supplied our house and a few other houses around us. Then one year a farmer nearby installed a deeper well with an electric pump, and our well ran dry. That started a “race to the bottom”: As more and more farmers got pumpsets, the water table continued to fall and everyone had to deepen their wells to keep up.