scholarly journals Conciliate Agriculture with Landscape and Biodiversity Conservation: A Role-Playing Game to Explore Trade-Offs among Ecosystem Services through Social Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clémence Moreau ◽  
Cécile Barnaud ◽  
Raphaël Mathevet
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Role Playing Game

A key challenge in the management of ecosystem services involves weighing up the trade-offs between these ecosystem services and who benefits from them. In mountainous zones, new trade-offs between ecosystem services emerge due to shifts in farming practices and their consequences on the landscapes (land abandonment and intensification), which is a source of debate and controversy between local stakeholders. To help stakeholders tackle the challenge of decision-making around trade-offs, this study tested the use of a role-playing game based on the concept of ecosystem services to facilitate the process through social learning. The game SECOLOZ was designed in cooperation with local stakeholders to explore the impacts of three farming practices (rock removal, ploughing of meadow, and pasturing) on trade-offs among ecosystem services. The game was played with various local stakeholders in the Mont Lozère, France. We found that this experience increased awareness of interdependencies, encouraged mutual understanding, improved the ability to deal with uncertainties, and fostered the exploration of innovative methods of governance. The outcomes confirm that the ecosystem service concept can be successfully used in a role-playing game process and that it significantly contributes to social learning.

Ob ınnovatsıonnyh metodah obýchenııa anglııskomý ıazyký (ıgrovoı metod) [Some Ideas about Innovative Methods of Teaching English (Game Method)]

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (117) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
R.B. Taýkebaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Full Development ◽  
Role Playing Game

This article is devoted to the study of innovative methods of teaching a foreign language (English). Special attention is paid to the analysis of the phenomenon of «game method», which affects the formation of educational cognitive activity of students. The game (role-playing game) contributes to the full development of educational material, stimulates motivation and interest in communicating in English. The article also discusses the functions of the game method, analyzes the author's teaching practice. This article is of a theoretical nature, but in the process of teaching a foreign language, you can use its material to improve students' speech knowledge, skills and abilities. Данная статья посвящена изучению инновационных методов обучения иностранному языку (английскому языку). Особое внимание уделяется анализу феномена «игровой метод» («игра»), который влияет на формирование учебной и познавательной деятельности обучающихся. Игра (ролевая игра) способствует полноценному освоению учебного материала, стимулирует мотивацию и интерес к общению на английском языке. Также в статье рассматриваются функции игрового метода, анализируются цели и задачи ролевых игр на примерах из преподавательской практики автора. Данная статья носит теоретический характер, но в процессе обучения иностранному языку можно использовать ее материал для совершенствования обучающимися речевых знаний, навыков и умений.

scholarly journals Facilitating informed land-use decisions through the modelling of ecosystem service trade-offs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nicola Scott
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Diffusion Theory ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Land Utilization ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Land Use Decisions ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Impact

<p>Increasing global populations are placing increasing pressure on our natural systems, reducing their capacity to produce the ecosystem services that we rely upon for human wellbeing (World Bank, 2004).   Clarifying the implications of land-use decisions across the range of ecosystem services is fundamental to understanding the trade-offs inherent in land-use options. LUCI (the Land Utilization and Capability Indicator) is an emergent Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based framework developed to enable the mapping of several ecosystem services in a spatially explicit manner. This process enables a clearer understanding of the inter-dependencies between ecosystems and potential implications and trade-offs of management interventions across a range of services.   There is however, limited understanding of the impact, utility and credibility of such tools for land-use decision-makers, or of how they perceive the information conveyed. This Thesis considered the impact that presenting information on land-use trade-offs through LUCI had on land-owners at the farm scale.   This research supports previous findings that information alone does not drive behaviour (or decision-making) (Kollmuss, 2002, Fisk, 2011; Kennedy, 2010; Mackenzie-Mohr, 2000; Stern, 2000). Similarly, perceived credibility was not the main driver of decision-making nor is it necessarily rationally based. However without it, voluntary adoption of a new technology or tool is unlikely. Therefore, in seeking to diffuse tools, such as LUCI within a community, process design should take into account the social structures and the characteristics of targeted individuals within that community. The influence of temporal and context specific factors on decision-making provides both barriers and opportunities for technology diffusion.  The research findings propose that when integrating new tools and technologies within communities, consideration is given to using a suite of tools, mechanisms and theories in concert such as Community-Based Social Marketing (Mackenzie-Mohr, 2011) and Diffusion Theory (Rogers, 2003) to facilitate improved diffusion and uptake by communities.</p>

scholarly journals Jamaica—The Transformation Towards Sustainability of an Island Economy Under Austerity Measures

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-268
Author(s):  
Ariel Macaspac Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Government Official ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Local Stakeholders

AbstractThis chapter diverges from the previous case studies. In addition to a literature review and qualitative interviews of local stakeholders, this chapter also contextualizes sustainable, low-carbon transformation by using an innovative experiment, where participants played the role of a decision-making government official committing to decisions under specific conditions (e.g., imposed austerity measures). When applied to Jamaica, the specific parameters of a scenario are assumed and through solution-oriented role playing, the process of decision-making is analyzed.

scholarly journals Exploring Expedient Protected Area for Ecosystem Services: Decision-Making Method with a New Algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5599
Author(s):  
Yumeng Zhang ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Zixiang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Weighted Averaging ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Averaging Operator ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Ordered Weighted Averaging Operator

From the point of view of ecological environment protection, the concepts of biodiversity, carbon sequestration, water production and culture have been selected to evaluate the ecosystem services of Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Zone. A multi-criterion decision-making method is applied to select the expedient protected area of the study area, which can provide abundant natural resources and a basis for the maintenance of ecological balance. In this paper, by setting up different risk values and weights to calculate OWA (ordered weighted averaging) operator, the scenario of the expedient protected area with the highest tradeoff value is selected. This study analyzes and evaluates ecosystem services in the study area by combining natural and human factors, and the OWA operator is used to balance the trade-offs between different ecosystem services, as well as select the expedient protected areas, which provides a reference for improving ecosystem services in the study area.

scholarly journals ANYCaRE: a role-playing game to investigate crisis decision-making and communication challenges in weather-related hazards

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galateia Terti ◽  
Isabelle Ruin ◽  
Milan Kalas ◽  
Ilona Láng ◽  
Arnau Cangròs i Alonso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Protective Action ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Cooperation ◽  
Strong Wind ◽  
First Results ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
Role Playing Game

Abstract. This study proposes a role-playing experiment to explore the value of modern impact-based weather forecasts on the decision-making process to (i) issue warnings and manage the official emergency response under uncertainty and (ii) communicate and trigger protective action at different levels of the warning system across Europe. Here, flood or strong-wind game simulations seek to represent the players' realistic uncertainties and dilemmas embedded in the real-time forecasting-warning processes. The game was first tested in two scientific workshops in Finland and France, where European researchers, developers, forecasters and civil protection representatives played the simulations. Two other game sessions were organized afterwards (i) with undergraduate university students in France and (ii) with Finnish stakeholders involved in the management of hazardous weather emergencies. First results indicate that multi-model developments and crowdsourcing tools increase the level of confidence in the decision-making under pressure. We found that the role-playing approach facilitates interdisciplinary cooperation and argumentation on emergency response in a fun and interactive manner. The ANYCaRE experiment was proposed, therefore, as a valuable learning tool to enhance participants' understanding of the complexities and challenges met by various actors in weather-related emergency management.

Using information on ecosystem services in Nepal to inform biodiversity conservation and local to national decision-making

Oryx ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishana Thapa ◽  
Stuart H. M. Butchart ◽  
Hum Gurung ◽  
Alison J. Stattersfield ◽  
David H. L. Thomas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
National Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
Trade Offs

AbstractPolicy-makers are paying increasing attention to ecosystem services, given improved understanding that they underpin human well-being, and following their integration within the Aichi Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Decision-makers need information on trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services but tools for assessing the latter are often expensive, technically demanding and ignore the local context. In this study we used a simple, replicable participatory assessment approach to gather information on ecosystem services at important sites for biodiversity conservation in Nepal, to feed into local and national decision-making. Through engaging knowledgeable stakeholders we assessed the services delivered by Nepal's 27 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas, the pressures affecting services through impacts on land cover and land use, and the consequences of these for people. We found that these sites provide ecosystem services to beneficiaries at a range of scales but under current pressures the balance of services will change, with local communities incurring the greatest costs. The approach provided valuable information on the trade-offs between ecosystem services and between different people, developed the capacity of civil society to engage in decision-making at the local and national level, and provided digestible information for Nepal's government. We recommend this approach in other countries where there is a lack of information on the likely impacts of land-use change on ecosystem services and people.

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