Sierra Springs a generic table-top game addressing conflict and cooperation between stakeholders involved in managing land, forest and water in a subhumid tropical mountain watershed
Participatory role-playing games and modeling can be useful tools for helping stakeholders understand how their choices, behavior and management of natural resources affect the long-term availability of those resources and their overall wellbeing. Participatory scoping and consensus building is most important in buffer zones surrounding Biosphere Reserves, as a number of social actors converge with different and sometimes very conflicting views and interests regarding rural livelihoods and natural resource management. As a first step in building a role playing game and companion model for the Sepultura Reserve in Chiapas, Mexico, we have developed - with active stakeholder collaboration- a generic land-use boardgame. The purpose of the game is to incresas stakeholder awareness on issues related to social conflict and cooperation regarding watershed management, but also to act as a DEMO that will motivate stakeholders to tailor it or modify it substantially to meet their more specific views and interests. The game can be easily adapted to other situations involving territorial issues. In short, each of four players colonizes a quadrant of a watershed with different types of land-use-tokens having different values. The Game has various social modes (Robinson Crusoe; competition, collective planning among equals; deliberation among the unequal ). In the competitive modes of the game, whoever makes N points first, wins. In the collective planning modes, the game is solved like a board puzzle and unless everybody makes N points, nobody wins. In the "deliberation among unequals" the powerless try to revert land and resource accumulation
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | Gestión ambiental, Gestión de recursos, Uso de la tierra, Juegos de rol, Manejo de conflictos, Cooperativismo, Artfrosur, |
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