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Workshop“An experimental game exploring community pathways to sustainable forest management,
10.02.2014 |
 On February 6th, 2014 the UJ Team organized a Workshop on “An experimental game exploring community pathways to sustainable forest management” at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
The workshop was led by Dr Piotr Magnuszewski, an employee of Centre for Systems Solutions, Wrocław, Poland and Int. Inst. for Applied Systems Analysis – IIASA (Austria). Dr Magnuszewski, a physicist and mathematician specializes on combining base with applied science by using system thinking tools, strategic games and simulations. The workshop hosted 10 PhD and M.Sc. students. The main aim of the workshop was to popularize experimental game approach among base science respondents.
The first part of the workshop was focused on playing the experimental game – Forest Game - exploring community pathways to sustainable forest management. The game was developed in the international project “The Emergence of Adaptive Governance Arrangements for Tropical Forest Ecosystems” funded by National Science Foundation (USA). The Forest Game confronts the players with the challenges faced by communities that use forests to make a living. It explores problems connected with common-pool resources. Participants make decisions about harvesting the forest to earn income. They are presented with dynamic resource – their decisions will affect the state of the forest in subsequent rounds. As the community, they harvest the resource in sustainable manner or deplete it. Future of the forest is in the players' hands. They can create institutions aimed at protecting the forest. Members of the community not only can decide on rules regarding resource but they also have measures to enforce them. Each member of community can monitor other players to check their decisions. Furthermore participants can also be sanctioned for their actions. Both of those activities requires investing some of the player's income.
In the second part of the workshop a wide discussion on the game results was held. Students discussed what they learned about introduction of sustainable management of natural resources, and how important are internal agreements and trust in order to achieve this goal. Methodological issues were also risen.
The workshop was sponsored by the FP7 EU project Scales and the Society, Environment and Technology Program (Jagiellonian University, Kraków).
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