Using games for social learning to promote self-governance

Governance of shared resources needs to overcome collective action problems. Relational values and decision-making play a critical role in this process. Approaches are needed to stimulate self-governance, taking relational values into account. We review the literature on the use of collective action...

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Autores principales: Janssen, Marco A., Falk, Thomas, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Vollan, Björn
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131460
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author Janssen, Marco A.
Falk, Thomas
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
Vollan, Björn
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description Governance of shared resources needs to overcome collective action problems. Relational values and decision-making play a critical role in this process. Approaches are needed to stimulate self-governance, taking relational values into account. We review the literature on the use of collective action games as a tool to stimulate social learning and self-governance. We emphasize the importance of legitimacy in decision-making and the risk of crowding out internalized motivations — for instance, based on relational values — with instrumental incentive mechanisms. We further highlight the need to include ecological outcome indicators in the game design to allow the activation of relational values. Our review concludes that games used as part of a set of participatory activities enable communities to come together to identify relevant problems and craft potential solutions.
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spelling CGSpace1314602025-10-26T12:53:12Z Using games for social learning to promote self-governance Janssen, Marco A. Falk, Thomas Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Vollan, Björn collective action decision making governance resources social learning Governance of shared resources needs to overcome collective action problems. Relational values and decision-making play a critical role in this process. Approaches are needed to stimulate self-governance, taking relational values into account. We review the literature on the use of collective action games as a tool to stimulate social learning and self-governance. We emphasize the importance of legitimacy in decision-making and the risk of crowding out internalized motivations — for instance, based on relational values — with instrumental incentive mechanisms. We further highlight the need to include ecological outcome indicators in the game design to allow the activation of relational values. Our review concludes that games used as part of a set of participatory activities enable communities to come together to identify relevant problems and craft potential solutions. 2023-06 2023-08-08T09:33:05Z 2023-08-08T09:33:05Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131460 en https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13862-280130 Open Access Elsevier Janssen, Marco A.; Falk, Thomas; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; and Vollan, Björn. 2023. Using games for social learning to promote self-governance. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 62(June 2023): 101289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101289
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Falk, Thomas
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Using games for social learning to promote self-governance
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title_fullStr Using games for social learning to promote self-governance
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social learning
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