Analysing the potential of serious games to raise new research questions on social-ecological systems

Open Access

Issue		Nat. Sci. Soc. Volume 32, Number 2, Avril/Juin 2024


Page(s)		216 - 225
Section		Regards – Focus
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2024048
Published online		28 November 2024

Agogué M., Levillain K., Hooge S., 2015. Gamification of creativity: exploring the usefulness of serious games for ideation, Creativity and Innovation Management, 24, 3, 415-429, https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12138. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Alberti M., Marzluff J., Shulenberger E., Bradley G., Ryan C., ZumBrunnen C., 2009. Integrating humans into ecology: opportunities and challenges for studying urban ecosystems, BioScience, 53, 12, 1169‑1179, https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[1169:IHIEOA]2.0.CO;2. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Barreteau O., 2003. The joint use of role-playing games and models regarding negotiation processes: characterization of associations, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 6, 2, https://www.jasss.org/6/2/3.html. [Google Scholar]
Barreteau O., Bousquet F., Étienne M., Souchère V., d’Aquino P., 2014. Companion Modelling: a method of adaptive and participatory research, in Étienne M. (Ed.), Companion Modelling. A participatory approach to support sustainable development, Versailles, Quæ and Springer, 13‑40, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8557-0_2. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Bretagnolle V., Benoit M., Bonnefond M., Breton V., Church J., Gaba S., Gilbert D., Gillet F., Glatron S., Guerbois C., et al., 2019. Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network, Ecology and Society, 24, 3, https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10989-240310. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Cariou J.-Y., 2019. Histoire des démarches scientifiques. De l’Antiquité au monde contemporain, Paris, Éditions Matériologiques, https://doi.org/10.3917/edmat.cariou.2019.01. [Google Scholar]
Collins J., Kinzig A., Grimm N., Fagan W.F., Hope D., Wu J., Borer E.T., 2000. A new urban ecology, American Scientist, 88, 5, 416‑425, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27858089. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Den Haan R.-J., Van der Voort M.C., 2018. On evaluating social learning outcomes of serious games to collaboratively address sustainability problems: a literature review, Sustainability, 10, 12, 4529, https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124529. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Edwards P., Sharma-Wallace L., Wreford A., Holt L., Cradock-Henry N.A., Flood S., Velarde S.J., 2019. Tools for adaptive governance for complex social-ecological systems: a review of role-playing-games as serious games at the community-policy interface, Environmental Research Letters, 14, 11, 113002, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4036. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Étienne M., 2014. Companion Modelling. A participatory approach to support sustainable development, Versailles, Quæ and Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8557-0. [Google Scholar]
Flood S., Cradock-Henry N.A., Blackett P., Edwards P., 2018. Adaptive and interactive climate futures: systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making, Environmental Research Letters, 13, 6, 063005, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac1c6. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Folke C., Carpenter S., Walker B., Scheffer M., Chapin T., Rockström J., 2010. Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability, Ecology and Society, 15, 4, 20, http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art20/. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Fouqueray T., Latune J., Trommetter M., Frascaria-Lacoste N., 2022. Interdisciplinary modeling and participatory simulation of forest management to foster adaptation to climate change, Environmental Modelling & Software, 151, 105338, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105338. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Girard N., 2013. Gérer les connaissances pour tenir compte des nouveaux enjeux industriels. L’exemple de la transition écologique des systèmes agricoles, Revue internationale de psychosociologie et de gestion des comportements organisationnels, 19, 51‑78, https://doi.org/10.3917/rips1.049.0049. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Hardy P.-Y., Dray A., Cornioley T., David M., Sabatier R., Kernes E., Souchère V., 2020. Public policy design: assessing the potential of new collective agri-environmental schemes in the Marais Poitevin wetland region using a participatory approach, Land Use Policy, 97, 104724, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104724. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Hatchuel A., Weil B., 2008. C-K design theory: an advanced formulation, Research in Engineering Design, 19, 4, 181‑192, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00163-008-0043-4. [Google Scholar]
Hatchuel A., Le Masson P., Reich Y., Subrahmanian E., 2018. Design theory: a foundation of a new paradigm for design science and engineering, Research in Engineering Design, 29, 1, 5‑21, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00163-017-0275-2. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Hazard L., Cerf M., Lamine C., Magda D., Steyaert P., 2020. A tool for reflecting on research stances to support sustainability transitions, Nature Sustainability, 3, 2, 89‑95, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0440-x. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Hooper D.U., Chapin III. F.S., Ewel J.J., Hector A., Inchausti P., Lavorel S., Lawton J.H., Lodge D.M., Loreau M., Naeem S., et al., 2005. Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge, Ecological Monographs, 75, 1, 3‑35, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4539083. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Kaneshiro K.Y., Chinn P., Duin K.N., Hood A.P., Maly K., Wilcox B. A., 2005. Hawai‘i’s mountain-to-sea ecosystems: social-ecological microcosms for sustainability science and practice, EcoHealth, 2, 4, 349‑360, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-005-8779-z. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Kates R.W., Clark W.C., Corell R., Hall J.M., Jaeger C.C., Lowe I., McCarthy J.J., Schellnhuber H.J., Bolin B., Dickson N.M., et al., 2001. Sustainability science, Science, 292, 5517, 641‑642, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1059386. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Lardon S., Piveteau V., 2005. Méthodologie de diagnostic pour le projet de territoire : une approche par les modèles spatiaux, Géocarrefour, 80, 2, 75‑90. https://doi.org/10.4000/geocarrefour.980. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Latune J.L., 2018. La compensation écologique : du principe de non perte nette de biodiversité à son opérationnalisation − analyse de l’action collective. PhD thesis, Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, https://theses.hal.science/tel-02185082. [Google Scholar]
Mayer I., 2009. The gaming of policy and the politics of gaming: a review, Simulation & Gaming, 40, 6, 825‑862, https://doi.org/10.1177/1046878109346456. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Moreau C., 2019. Mettre en débat l’état de référence. Analyse des représentations des dynamiques paysagères au prisme des services écosystémiques. L’exemple du Mont Lozère. PhD thesis, Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, https://theses.hal.science/tel-02123940/. [Google Scholar]
Moreau C., Barnaud C., Mathevet R., 2019. Conciliate agriculture with landscape and biodiversity conservation: a role-playing game to explore trade-offs among ecosystem services through social learning, Sustainability, 11, 2, 310, https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020310. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Muro M., Jeffrey P., 2008. A critical review of the theory and application of social learning in participatory natural resource management processes, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 51, 3, 325‑344, https://doi.org/10.1080/09640560801977190. [Google Scholar]
Newcomer K.E., Hatry H.P., Wholey J.S., 2015. Handbook of practical program evaluation, Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119171386. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Nowotny H., 2003. Democratising expertise and socially robust knowledge, Science and Public Policy, 30, 3, 151-156, https://doi.org/10.3152/147154303781780461. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Plummer R., Fitzgibbon J., 2004. Co-management of natural resources: a proposed framework, Environmental Management, 33, 6, 876‑885, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-003-3038-y. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Rakotonarivo O.S., Jones I.L., Bell A., Duthie A.B., Cusack J., Minderman J., Hogan J., Hodgson I., Bunnefeld N., 2021. Experimental evidence for conservation conflict interventions: the importance of financial payments, community trust and equity attitudes, People and Nature, 3, 1, 162‑175. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10155. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Reckien D., Eisenack K., 2013. Climate change gaming on board and screen: a review, Simulation & Gaming, 44, 2‑3, 253‑271, https://doi.org/10.1177/1046878113480867. [Google Scholar]
Ruankaew N., Le Page C., Dumrongrojwatthana P., Barnaud C., Gajaseni N., van Paassen A., Trébuil G., 2010. Companion modelling for integrated renewable resource management: a new collaborative approach to create common values for sustainable development, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 17, 1, 15‑23, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504500903481474. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Toffolini Q., Jeuffroy M.-H., Meynard J.-M., Borg J., Enjalbert J., Gauffreteau A., Goldringer I., Lefèvre A., Loyce C., Martin P., et al., 2020. Design as a source of renewal in the production of scientific knowledge in crop science, Agricultural Systems, 185, 102939, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.102939. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Tsai M.-J., Wang C.-Y., Hsu P.-F., 2019. Developing the computer programming self-efficacy scale for computer literacy education, Journal of Educational Computing Research, 56, 8, 1345‑1360, https://doi.org/10.1177/0735633117746747. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Vourc’h G., Brun J., Ducrot C., Cosson J.-F., Le Masson P., Weil B., 2018. Using design theory to foster innovative cross-disciplinary research: lessons learned from a research network focused on antimicrobial use and animal microbes’ resistance to antimicrobials, Veterinary and Animal Science, 6, 12‑20, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vas.2018.04.001. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Wu J.S., Lee J.J., 2015. Climate change games as tools for education and engagement, Nature Climate Change, 5, 5, 413‑418, https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE2566. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Zvoleff A., An L., 2014. Analyzing human-landscape interactions: tools that integrate, Environmental Management, 53, 94-111, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-012-0009-1. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.

Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.

Initial download of the metrics may take a while.