The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems
In order to achieve collaborative action in nature conservation and natural resources management, stakeholders have to understand and acknowledge other stakeholders’ interests, values, world visions and objectives and they have to overcome the problem of irrational decision-making through innate opp...
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| author | Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Farid Dahdouh-Guebas T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen Jean Hugé Jean Hugé Jean Hugé Jean Hugé Yasmin Dahdouh-Guebas Diana Di Nitto Diana Di Nitto Amina Juma Hamza Amina Juma Hamza Sunanda Kodikara Arachchilage Nico Koedam Nico Koedam María Mancilla García María Mancilla García Mohamed O. S. Mohamed Laurence Mostert Cosmas N. Munga Meenakshi Poti Meenakshi Poti Behara Satyanarayana Behara Satyanarayana Behara Satyanarayana Iris Stiers Karolien Van Puyvelde Maarten P. M. Vanhove Katherine Vande Velde Katherine Vande Velde Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy |
| author_facet | Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Farid Dahdouh-Guebas T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen Jean Hugé Jean Hugé Jean Hugé Jean Hugé Yasmin Dahdouh-Guebas Diana Di Nitto Diana Di Nitto Amina Juma Hamza Amina Juma Hamza Sunanda Kodikara Arachchilage Nico Koedam Nico Koedam María Mancilla García María Mancilla García Mohamed O. S. Mohamed Laurence Mostert Cosmas N. Munga Meenakshi Poti Meenakshi Poti Behara Satyanarayana Behara Satyanarayana Behara Satyanarayana Iris Stiers Karolien Van Puyvelde Maarten P. M. Vanhove Katherine Vande Velde Katherine Vande Velde Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy |
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| description | In order to achieve collaborative action in nature conservation and natural resources management, stakeholders have to understand and acknowledge other stakeholders’ interests, values, world visions and objectives and they have to overcome the problem of irrational decision-making through innate opposition discourses. In this paper we developed the Mangal Play, an experiential learning method to have participants adopt the role of a particular stakeholder in an imaginary mangrove forest social-ecological system (SES). The Mangal Play is a serious game, more specifically a role-play, aimed at promoting oral dialogues between 20 stakeholders involved in governance, fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture, forestry, tourism, transport, conservation and communication sectors. By providing tools to lecturers and scientists to execute it in a public or classroom setting, the Mangal Play stimulates a decision-making process while accepting compromise and distinguishing bottom-line issues from negotiable positions, and instructs about the behaviour of complex real-world systems in a safe learning environment. We exemplify how social network analysis can serve to visualise the outcome and further develop the Mangal Play. In this way we hope to help stakeholders take into account diverse positions in a rational decision-making process. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6271799b30de4943993695469c7b2f112022-12-22T04:01:16ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452022-08-01910.3389/fmars.2022.909793909793The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systemsFarid Dahdouh-Guebas0Farid Dahdouh-Guebas1Farid Dahdouh-Guebas2Farid Dahdouh-Guebas3T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen4T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen5Jean Hugé6Jean Hugé7Jean Hugé8Jean Hugé9Yasmin Dahdouh-Guebas10Diana Di Nitto11Diana Di Nitto12Amina Juma Hamza13Amina Juma Hamza14Sunanda Kodikara Arachchilage15Nico Koedam16Nico Koedam17María Mancilla García18María Mancilla García19Mohamed O. S. Mohamed20Laurence Mostert21Cosmas N. Munga22Meenakshi Poti23Meenakshi Poti24Behara Satyanarayana25Behara Satyanarayana26Behara Satyanarayana27Iris Stiers28Karolien Van Puyvelde29Maarten P. M. Vanhove30Katherine Vande Velde31Katherine Vande Velde32Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy33Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy34Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, BelgiumEcology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, BelgiumMangrove Specialist Group (MSG), Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Zoological Society of London, London, United KingdomInterfaculty Institute of Social-Ecological Transitions - iiTSE, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, BelgiumSystems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Sammanthurei, Sri LankaSystems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, BelgiumEcology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Open University of the Netherlands, Valkenburgerweg, Heerlen, NetherlandsHasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity & Toxicology, Diepenbeek, BelgiumVrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, BelgiumSystems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, BelgiumEcology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Life & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science & Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom0Oceanography and Hydrography Department, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Mombasa, Kenya1Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri LankaEcology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, BelgiumMangrove Specialist Group (MSG), Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom2SOcio-eNvironmental dYnamics research group (SONYA), Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, BelgiumInterfaculty Institute of Social-Ecological Transitions - iiTSE, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium3Marine and Coastal Research Centre, Wildlife Research and Training Institute, Mombasa, KenyaVrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium4Department of Environment & Health Sciences, Marine & Fisheries Programme, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, KenyaSystems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, BelgiumEcology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, BelgiumSystems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, BelgiumMangrove Specialist Group (MSG), Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom5Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu - UMT, Terengganu, Malaysia6Multidisciplinary Institute for Teacher Education (MILO), Science & Technology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium7MSc Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management (Oceans & Lakes), Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB, Brussels, BelgiumHasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity & Toxicology, Diepenbeek, BelgiumSystems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, BelgiumEcology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, BelgiumSystems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium8Blue Ventures Madagascar, Villa Huguette, Cité Planton, Antananarivo, MadagascarIn order to achieve collaborative action in nature conservation and natural resources management, stakeholders have to understand and acknowledge other stakeholders’ interests, values, world visions and objectives and they have to overcome the problem of irrational decision-making through innate opposition discourses. In this paper we developed the Mangal Play, an experiential learning method to have participants adopt the role of a particular stakeholder in an imaginary mangrove forest social-ecological system (SES). The Mangal Play is a serious game, more specifically a role-play, aimed at promoting oral dialogues between 20 stakeholders involved in governance, fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture, forestry, tourism, transport, conservation and communication sectors. By providing tools to lecturers and scientists to execute it in a public or classroom setting, the Mangal Play stimulates a decision-making process while accepting compromise and distinguishing bottom-line issues from negotiable positions, and instructs about the behaviour of complex real-world systems in a safe learning environment. We exemplify how social network analysis can serve to visualise the outcome and further develop the Mangal Play. In this way we hope to help stakeholders take into account diverse positions in a rational decision-making process.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.909793/fullrole-playstakeholderpolicy-makingsocial network analysismangrove managementadaptive management |
| spellingShingle | Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Farid Dahdouh-Guebas T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen Jean Hugé Jean Hugé Jean Hugé Jean Hugé Yasmin Dahdouh-Guebas Diana Di Nitto Diana Di Nitto Amina Juma Hamza Amina Juma Hamza Sunanda Kodikara Arachchilage Nico Koedam Nico Koedam María Mancilla García María Mancilla García Mohamed O. S. Mohamed Laurence Mostert Cosmas N. Munga Meenakshi Poti Meenakshi Poti Behara Satyanarayana Behara Satyanarayana Behara Satyanarayana Iris Stiers Karolien Van Puyvelde Maarten P. M. Vanhove Katherine Vande Velde Katherine Vande Velde Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems Frontiers in Marine Science role-play stakeholder policy-making social network analysis mangrove management adaptive management |
| title | The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems |
| title_full | The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems |
| title_fullStr | The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems |
| title_short | The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems |
| title_sort | mangal play a serious game to experience multi stakeholder decision making in complex mangrove social ecological systems |
| topic | role-play stakeholder policy-making social network analysis mangrove management adaptive management |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.909793/full |
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