Frontiers in Marine Science (Aug 2022)
The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems
- 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
Affiliations
- Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
- Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
- Mangrove Specialist Group (MSG), Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
- Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
- Interfaculty Institute of Social-Ecological Transitions - iiTSE, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- T. W. G. F. Mafaziya Nijamdeen
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Sammanthurei, Sri Lanka
- Jean Hugé
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Jean Hugé
- Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Jean Hugé
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Open University of the Netherlands, Valkenburgerweg, Heerlen, Netherlands
- Jean Hugé
- Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity & Toxicology, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Yasmin Dahdouh-Guebas
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Diana Di Nitto
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Diana Di Nitto
- Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Amina Juma Hamza
- Department of Life & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science & Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom
- Amina Juma Hamza
- 0Oceanography and Hydrography Department, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Mombasa, Kenya
- Sunanda Kodikara Arachchilage
- 1Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka
- Nico Koedam
- Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Nico Koedam
- Mangrove Specialist Group (MSG), Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
- María Mancilla García
- 2SOcio-eNvironmental dYnamics research group (SONYA), Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- María Mancilla García
- Interfaculty Institute of Social-Ecological Transitions - iiTSE, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Mohamed O. S. Mohamed
- 3Marine and Coastal Research Centre, Wildlife Research and Training Institute, Mombasa, Kenya
- Laurence Mostert
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Cosmas N. Munga
- 4Department of Environment & Health Sciences, Marine & Fisheries Programme, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya
- Meenakshi Poti
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Meenakshi Poti
- Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Behara Satyanarayana
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Behara Satyanarayana
- Mangrove Specialist Group (MSG), Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
- Behara Satyanarayana
- 5Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu - UMT, Terengganu, Malaysia
- Iris Stiers
- 6Multidisciplinary Institute for Teacher Education (MILO), Science & Technology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
- Karolien Van Puyvelde
- 7MSc Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management (Oceans & Lakes), Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Maarten P. M. Vanhove
- Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity & Toxicology, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Katherine Vande Velde
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Katherine Vande Velde
- Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy
- 8Blue Ventures Madagascar, Villa Huguette, Cité Planton, Antananarivo, Madagascar
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.909793
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9
Abstract
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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