Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal
Rural people in Nepal and other developing nations are part of complex, social-ecological systems. Efforts to provide assistance to these people must integrate knowledge from a variety of perspectives. This report documents the use of a role-playing game, supported by an agent-based model, to demons...
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International Water Management Institute
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| author | Janmaat, J. Lapp, S. Wannop, T. Bharati, Luna Sugden, Fraser |
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| author_facet | Janmaat, J. Lapp, S. Wannop, T. Bharati, Luna Sugden, Fraser |
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| description | Rural people in Nepal and other developing nations are part of complex, social-ecological systems. Efforts to provide assistance to these people must integrate knowledge from a variety of perspectives. This report documents the use of a role-playing game, supported by an agent-based model, to demonstrate the interaction between migration, social capital and the effectiveness of water storage. The importance of these interactions was highlighted by fieldwork conducted at several sites in the Koshi River Basin. The model underlying the game was a stylized representation based on the Indrawati Subbasin northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal. The report highlights that (a) role-playing tournaments can be an effective way to engage technical and policy experts with the complex interactions between the social and physical dimensions of watershed management; and (b) migration and the economic changes which drive these interactions are forces that need to be accepted, and investments in water storage need to be selected depending on how they fit into these trends. |
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| spelling | CGSpace684552025-11-07T08:41:39Z Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal Janmaat, J. Lapp, S. Wannop, T. Bharati, Luna Sugden, Fraser water storage calibration river basins watershed management drinking water households economic aspects income budgets investment crop production climate change precipitation labour productivity social structure rural communities policy making capacity building education sustainability Rural people in Nepal and other developing nations are part of complex, social-ecological systems. Efforts to provide assistance to these people must integrate knowledge from a variety of perspectives. This report documents the use of a role-playing game, supported by an agent-based model, to demonstrate the interaction between migration, social capital and the effectiveness of water storage. The importance of these interactions was highlighted by fieldwork conducted at several sites in the Koshi River Basin. The model underlying the game was a stylized representation based on the Indrawati Subbasin northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal. The report highlights that (a) role-playing tournaments can be an effective way to engage technical and policy experts with the complex interactions between the social and physical dimensions of watershed management; and (b) migration and the economic changes which drive these interactions are forces that need to be accepted, and investments in water storage need to be selected depending on how they fit into these trends. 2015 2015-10-07T07:02:17Z 2015-10-07T07:02:17Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68455 en Open Access application/pdf International Water Management Institute Janmaat, J.; Lapp, S.; Wannop, T.; Bharati, Luna; Sugden, Fraser. 2015. Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI).. 38p. (IWMI Research Report 163) doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2015.212 |
| spellingShingle | water storage calibration river basins watershed management drinking water households economic aspects income budgets investment crop production climate change precipitation labour productivity social structure rural communities policy making capacity building education sustainability Janmaat, J. Lapp, S. Wannop, T. Bharati, Luna Sugden, Fraser Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal |
| title | Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal |
| title_full | Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal |
| title_fullStr | Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal |
| title_short | Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal |
| title_sort | demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation investing in water in the indrawati subbasin nepal |
| topic | water storage calibration river basins watershed management drinking water households economic aspects income budgets investment crop production climate change precipitation labour productivity social structure rural communities policy making capacity building education sustainability |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68455 |
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