Unlocking the potential of gaming for anticipatory governance

IF 4.4 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.esg.2021.100130

Joost Vervoort , Astrid Mangnus , Steven McGreevy , Kazuhiko Ota , Kyle Thompson , Christoph Rupprecht , Norie Tamura , Carien Moossdorff , Max Spiegelberg , Mai Kobayashi

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Abstract

Games offer unique possibilities for imagining and experimenting with new systems of governance for more sustainable futures – new rules and institutions, new roles, and new dynamic worlds. However, research on sustainability games has mostly investigated games as a type of futures method, largely divorced from its societal contexts. In this paper, we argue that to unlock the potential of gaming for anticipatory governance in the service of a more sustainable future, it is important take a whole-society perspective, and examine the possibilities and challenges offered by contextual factors. Using the Netherlands and Japan as examples, we investigate the following questions: 1) How do governance cultures allow or restrict opportunities for the participatory exploration of futures using games? 2) How does, and can, the game sector in a given context support anticipatory gaming? 3) How do dominant societal relationships with games limit, and offer opportunities for, gaming for anticipatory governance?

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释放游戏的潜力，实现预期式治理

游戏提供了独特的可能性来想象和试验新的管理系统，以实现更可持续的未来——新的规则和制度，新的角色，新的动态世界。然而，关于可持续性游戏的研究主要是将游戏作为一种未来方法进行调查，并且在很大程度上脱离了其社会背景。在本文中，我们认为，为了释放游戏对预期治理的潜力，为更可持续的未来服务，重要的是采取全社会的视角，并研究背景因素提供的可能性和挑战。以荷兰和日本为例，我们研究了以下问题:1)治理文化如何允许或限制使用游戏进行参与式未来探索的机会?2)在特定背景下，游戏部门如何支持预期游戏?3)与游戏相关的主流社会关系如何限制并为预期治理的游戏提供机会?

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Earth System Governance Multiple-

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9.00

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14.30%

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审稿时长

35 weeks