A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexities of Flood Mitigation Options in Urban–Rural Catchments
| Autor: | Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia, Mehdi Khoury, Dragan Savic, Albert S. Chen, Harry Langford, Sarah Wigley, Michael Gibson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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lcsh:Hydraulic engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science infrastructure 01 natural sciences Biochemistry decision making Entertainment lcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes lcsh:TC1-978 Citizen science Flood mitigation serious gaming Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Water Science and Technology media_common lcsh:TD201-500 Flood myth Inductive reasoning flood Transformative learning Work (electrical) 13. Climate action Psychological resilience Business rural urban |
| Zdroj: | Water Water, Vol 10, Iss 12, p 1885 (2018) Volume 10 Issue 12 |
| ISSN: | 2073-4441 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/w10121885 |
| Popis: | Flood prevention in mixed urban–rural environments has become a greater concern due to climate change. It is a complex task requiring both efficient management of resources and the involvement of multiple stakeholders from diverse backgrounds. As Serious Games (games used for purposes other than mere entertainment) have emerged as an effective means of engaging stakeholders, this work proposes a new Serious Game applied to flood mitigation in the village of Millbrook in the UK. Results show that the game has both an informative and a transformative effect (statistical significance levels from 0.01 to 0.05), improving participants’ understanding of the problem, and helping them to find a new and improved approach to flood risk management in Millbrook, with the potential to improve resilience significantly. Furthermore, the game successfully transformed participants into “citizen scientists” in the purest sense of the term—it led them to use inductive reasoning from data produced by the game to correctly confirm or reject hypotheses and resulted in more than 70% of the participants revising their initial assumptions. Interestingly, the game instigated the formation of new local partnerships and helped to prioritize the discussion of natural flood management measures in Millbrook Parish Council meetings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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