[HTML][HTML] Serious games in natural resource management: steps toward assessment of their contextualized impacts

R Rodela, EN Speelman - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•The body of academic literature on serious games continues to steadily
increase.•Serious games offer an inclusive approach to facilitate transdisciplinary …

Triangulating agent-based models, role-playing games, and a stakeholder-centric approach to change scenarios

GB Villamor, M van Noordwijk, KG Troitzsch - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Validation shows models and games generate prospects rather than
predictions.•ABM and role-play games (RPG) can interact in multiple ways.•RPGs can be …

Sustainable agroforestry landscape management: Changing the game

M van Noordwijk, E Speelman, GJ Hofstede, A Farida… - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Location-specific forms of agroforestry management can reduce problems in the forest–
water–people nexus, by balancing upstream and downstream interests, but social and …

The global forest transition as a human affair

CA Garcia, S Savilaakso, RW Verburg, V Gutierrez… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Forests across the world stand at a crossroads where climate and land-use changes are
shaping their future. Despite demonstrations of political will and global efforts, forest loss …

Combining participatory games and backcasting to support collective scenario evaluation: an action research approach for sustainable agroforestry landscape …

F Andreotti, EN Speelman, K Van den Meersche… - Sustainability …, 2020 - Springer
The combined and interacting effects of land-use change, resource extraction and climate
change threaten the sustainability of millions of mainly smallholder farms in tropical …

[HTML][HTML] Serious games and citizen science; from parallel pathways to greater synergies

EN Speelman, E Escano, D Marcos, N Becu - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•The field of citizen science and serious games gained traction in recent
years.•The two fields have been on seemingly parallel pathways of development.•With the …

[HTML][HTML] Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management

T Falk, W Zhang, R Meinzen-Dick… - Ecology and …, 2023 - ecologyandsociety.org
As resource users interact and impose externalities onto each other, institutions are needed
to coordinate resource use, create trust, and provide incentives for sustainable …

Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics

M Van Noordwijk, P van Oel, C Muthuri… - Outlook on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Metrics of hydrological mimicry ('mimetrics') reflect similarity in ecological structure and/or
functions between managed and natural ecosystems. Only the land-surface parts of …

Toward inclusive landscape governance in contested landscapes: exploring the contribution of participatory tools in the Upper Suriname River Basin

L Best, K Fung-Loy, N Ilahibaks… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Nowadays, tropical forest landscapes are commonly characterized by a multitude of
interacting institutions and actors with competing land-use interests. In these settings …

[HTML][HTML] Farmer Options and Risks in Complex Ecological-Social systems: The FORCES game designed for agroforestry management of upper watersheds

RR Sari, L Tanika, EN Speelman, DD Saputra… - Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Serious games have gained popularity as an innovative participatory approach to
explore the complexity of social-ecological systems, managing the trade-offs between …