Adaptive and interactive climate futures: systematic review of 'serious games' for engagement and decision-making

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dc.contributor.authorFlood, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorCradock-Henry, Nicholas A.
dc.contributor.authorBlackett, Paula
dc.contributor.authorEdwards, Peter
dc.contributor.funderResilience to Nature's Challengesen
dc.contributor.funderMinistry for Business Innovation and Employmenten
dc.contributor.funderStrategic Science Investment Funden
dc.contributor.funderManaaki Whenua Landcare Researchen
dc.contributor.funderNatural Hazards Research Platformen
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-24T11:10:18Z
dc.date.available2019-09-24T11:10:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-09-24T10:52:55Z
dc.description.abstractClimate change is already having adverse impacts on ecosystems, communities and economic activities through higher temperatures, prolonged droughts, and more frequent extremes. However, a gap remains between public understanding, scientific knowledge about climate change, and changes in behaviour to effect adaptation. 'Serious games' - games used for purposes other than entertainment - are one way to reduce this adaptation deficit by enhancing opportunities for social learning and enabling positive action. Games can provide communities with the opportunity to interactively explore different climate futures, build capability and capacity for dealing with complex challenges, and socialise adaptation priorities with diverse publics. Using systematic review methods, this paper identifies, reviews, synthesises and assesses the literature on serious games for climate change adaptation. To determine where and how impact is achieved, we draw on an evaluation framework grounded in social learning, to assess which combinations of cognitive (knowledge and thinking), normative (norms and approaches) and relational (how people connect and network building) learning are achieved. Results show that factors influencing the overall success in influencing behaviour and catalysing learning for adaptation include generating high levels of inter- and intra- level trust between researchers, practitioners and community participants; strong debriefing and evaluation practices; and the use of experienced and knowledgeable facilitators. These results can help inform future game design, and research methodologies to develop robust ways for engaging with stakeholders and end users, and enhance learning effects for resilient climate futures.en
dc.description.sponsorshipMinistry for Business Innovation and Employment (Resilience to Nature's Challenges, National Science Challenge, Strategic Science Investment Fund, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid063005en
dc.identifier.citationFlood, S., Cradock-Henry, N. A., Blackett, P. and Edwards, P. (2018) 'Adaptive and interactive climate futures: systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making', Environmental Research Letters, 13(6): 063005, (20pp.) DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aac1c6en
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1748-9326/aac1c6en
dc.identifier.endpage20en
dc.identifier.issn1748-9326
dc.identifier.issued6en
dc.identifier.journaltitleEnvironmental Research Lettersen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8604
dc.identifier.volume13en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen
dc.relation.urihttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aac1c6
dc.rights© 2018 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distributionof this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en
dc.subjectClimate change adaptationen
dc.subjectSocial learningen
dc.subjectSerious gamesen
dc.subjectClimate servicesen
dc.subjectDecision-makingen
dc.titleAdaptive and interactive climate futures: systematic review of 'serious games' for engagement and decision-makingen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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