Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management: A conceptual framework and insights from four cases from India

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dc.creatorFalk, Thomas
dc.creatorZhang, Wei
dc.creatorMeinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
dc.creatorBartels, Lara
dc.date2021-01-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:13:52Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:13:52Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:00:24Z
dc.descriptionAs resource users interact and impose externalities onto each other, institutions are needed to coordinate resource use, create trust, and provide incentives for sustainable management. Coordinated collective action can play a key role in enabling communities to manage natural resources more sustainably. But when such collective action is not present, what can be done to foster it? There is growing awareness that the governance of natural resources has to be adapted to the specific context. Interventions are often implemented at small scale, and the potential to scale up facilitation intensive approaches is limited. Moreover, sustainable resource management frequently fails to emerge or breaks down after the project ends. To date, researchers have typically used behavioral games to study cooperation patterns of communities. Recently, games have been adapted as learning and stakeholder engagement tools to improve management of the commons, strengthen self-regulation of resource use, and enhance constructive interactions among resource users. Combining games with other interventions and tools and facilitated discussions has been proposed as a promising approach to improve collective action institutions through experiential learning — a classic approach in education. This paper reviews existing literature and synthesizes lessons learned from a series of studies testing the use of behavioral games for institutional capacity development in India. We conclude that, while games alone will not be the solution to all natural resource management challenges games can provide a structured and therefore replicable approach for influencing behavior. They can also improve system understanding, raise awareness, influence norms, facilitate dialogue, train for crisis response, and increase legitimacy of decisions.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143401
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/91843
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.02.006
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08416-210338
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114024
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134949
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceFalk, Thomas; Zhang, Wei; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; and Bartels, Lara. 2021. Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management: A conceptual framework and insights from four cases from India. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1995. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134238.
dc.subjectfacilitation
dc.subjectwater
dc.subjectforests
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectbehavioural changes
dc.subjectnatural resources management
dc.subjectactivities
dc.subjectdecision making
dc.subjectnatural resource management
dc.subjectimpact assessment
dc.titleGames for triggering collective change in natural resource management: A conceptual framework and insights from four cases from India
dc.typeWorking Paper

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