Towards a Framework for Designing and Assessing Game-Based Approaches for Sustainable Water Governance

Most of the literature on serious games and gamification calls for a shift from evaluating practices to using theories to assess them. While the former is necessary to justify using game-based approaches, the latter enables understanding “why” game-based approaches are beneficial (or not). Based on earlier review papers and the papers in this special issue of Water entitled “Understanding game-based approaches for improving sustainable water governance: the potential of serious games to solve water problems”, we show that game-based approaches in a water governance context are relatively diverse. In particular, the expected aims, targeted audience, and spatial and temporal scales are factors that differentiate game-based approaches. These factors also strongly influence the design of game-based approaches and the research developed to assess them. We developed a framework to guide and reflect on the design and assessment of game-based approaches, and we suggest opportunities for future research. In particular, we highlight the lack of game-based approaches that can support “society-driven” sustainable water governance.

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The Potential of Serious Games to Solve Water Problems: Editorial to the Special Issue on Game-Based Approaches to Sustainable Water Governance

Water ◽

10.3390/w11122562 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 2562 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Wietske Medema ◽

Igor Mayer ◽

Jan Adamowski ◽

Arjen E.J. Wals ◽

Chengzi Chew

Keyword(s):

Serious Games ◽

Water Governance ◽

Future Research ◽

Special Issue ◽

Sustainable Water Governance ◽

Water Problems

In this editorial, the authors (and guest editors) introduce the Special Issue titled Understanding Game-based Approaches for Improving Sustainable Water Governance: The Potential of Serious Games to Solve Water Problems. The authors take another look at the twelve contributions, starting from the subtitle question: what is the potential? The authors summarize the insights and give directions for future research.

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Knowledge Co-Production and Transdisciplinarity: Opening Pandora’s Box

Water ◽

10.3390/w11101997 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (10) ◽

pp. 1997 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Marcela Brugnach ◽

Gül Özerol

Keyword(s):

Water Governance ◽

Future Research ◽

Special Issue ◽

Governance System ◽

Water Research ◽

Political Implications ◽

Significant Step ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

The Individual ◽

Thought Styles

This Special Issue aims to reflect on knowledge co-production and transdisciplinarity, exploring the mutual interaction between water governance and water research. We do so with contributions that bring examples from diverse parts of the world: Bolivia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Namibia, the Netherlands, Palestine, and South Africa. Key insights brought by these contributions include the importance of engaging the actors from early stages of transdisciplinary research, and the need for an in-depth understanding of the diverse needs, competences, and power of actors and the water governance system in which knowledge co-production takes place. Further, several future research directions are identified, such as the examination of knowledge backgrounds according to the individual and collective thought styles of different actors. Together, the eight papers included in this Special Issue constitute a significant step toward a better understanding of knowledge co-production and transdisciplinarity, with a common thread for being reflective and clear about their complexity, and the political implications and risks they pose for inclusive, plural and just water research and governance.

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Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer in Integrated Water Resources Management: A Research Agenda

Water ◽

10.3390/w12010072 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 72 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Oliver Fritsch ◽

David Benson

Keyword(s):

Water Resources ◽

Water Resources Management ◽

Water Governance ◽

Integrated Water Resources Management ◽

Policy Transfer ◽

Future Research ◽

The European Union ◽

Special Issue ◽

Resources Management ◽

Mutual Learning

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has become a global paradigm for the governance of surface, coastal and groundwater. International bodies such as the European Union, the Global Water Partnership, and the United Nations have taken the lead to promote IWRM principles, while countries worldwide have undertaken reforms to implement these principles and to restructure their domestic or regional water governance arrangements. However, the international transfer of IWRM principles raises a number of theoretical, empirical and normative questions related to its causes, processes and outcomes. These questions will be explored in our Special Issue ‘Governing IWRM: Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer’. This editorial briefly introduces IWRM and links this governance paradigm to theoretical and empirical scholarship on policy transfer. We then summarise the aims and objectives of this Special Issue, provide an overview of the articles brought together here and offer avenues for future research.

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Biogeography and ecology: two views of one world

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2011.0064 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 366 (1576) ◽

pp. 2331-2335 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

David G. Jenkins ◽

Robert E. Ricklefs

Keyword(s):

Royal Society ◽

Spatial Scales ◽

Future Research ◽

Comparative Ecology ◽

Temporal Scales ◽

Research Directions ◽

Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Do So

Both biogeography and ecology seek to understand the processes that determine patterns in nature, but do so at different spatial and temporal scales. The two disciplines were not always so different, and are recently converging again at regional spatial scales and broad temporal scales. In order to avoid confusion and to hasten progress at the converging margins of each discipline, the following papers were presented at a symposium in the International Biogeography Society's 2011 meeting, and are now published in this issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B . In a novel approach, groups of authors were paired to represent biogeographic and ecological perspectives on each of four topics: niche, comparative ecology and macroecology, community assembly, and diversity. Collectively, this compilation identifies points of agreement and disagreement between the two views on these central topics, and points to future research directions that may build on agreements and reconcile differences. We conclude this compilation with an overview on the integration of biogeography and ecology.

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GIScience and Neighborhood Change: Toward and Understanding of Processes of Change

10.31219/osf.io/vdzsh ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Elizabeth C. Delmelle

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Neighborhood Change ◽

Future Research ◽

Processes Of Change ◽

Temporal Scales ◽

Full Spectrum ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽

Future Research Agenda ◽

Simple Mapping

Processes of neighborhood change are the result of the unfolding of events and decisions by multiple actors operating at varying spatial and temporal scales, enabled and constrained upon an unequal urban landscape. The contributions of GIScience towards understanding these processes has evolved from the simple mapping of static, cross-sectional maps towards an embrace of novel data and methods that enable longitudinal trajectories to be extracted and neighborhood futures to be predicted. In this article, I review these advancements and chart a course forward that considers a future research agenda that is critically cognizant of the potentials and perils of new data sources and method, is representative of the full spectrum of processes operating both visibly and invisibly that give rise to observed neighborhood outcomes, and considers their varying spatial and temporal scales.

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Editorial for Quantitative Geomorphology Special Issue

Geosciences ◽

10.3390/geosciences8120475 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (12) ◽

pp. 475

Author(s):

Dario Gioia

Keyword(s):

Research Field ◽

Surface Processes ◽

Important Research ◽

Special Issue ◽

Model Surface ◽

Temporal Scales ◽

Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽

Quantitative Geomorphology

In recent years, DEM- and GIS-supported analysis of landscape has become an important research field in many geomorphological applications, which aim to model surface processes in a variety of geomorphic environments and at different spatial and temporal scales. [...]

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Pengaruh Lintas Budaya Pada Pemasaran Internasional Dengan Pendekatan Perilaku Konsumen

Jurnal Riset Manajemen Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Widya Wiwaha Program Magister Manajemen ◽

10.32477/jrm.v1i2.28 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 168-176

Author(s):

Endy Gunanto ◽

Yenni Kurnia Gusti

Keyword(s):

Consumer Behavior ◽

Marketing Strategy ◽

Consumer Culture ◽

International Organization ◽

Future Research ◽

Special Issue ◽

Cross Culture ◽

Several Variables ◽

Cultural Orientations ◽

The Impact

In this article we present a conceptual of the effect of cross culture on consumer behavior incorporating the impact of globalization. This conceptual idea shows that culture inûuences various domains of consumer behavior directly as well as through international organization to implement marketing strategy. The conceptual identify several factors such as norm and value in the community, several variables and also depicts the impact of other environmental factors and marketing strategy elements on consumer behavior. We also identify categories of consumer culture orientation resulting from globalization. Highlights of each of the several other articles included in this special issue in Asia region. We conclude with the contributions of the articles in terms of the consumer cultural orientations and identify directions for future research.

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