Pearl River, Negotiating the Future of Dams: A Science-Based Role Play Simulation for Engaged Decision Making
Role-Play Simulation Workshop
08.12.2023 09:00 – 12:00
Please note that time and date have changed due to illness. This is the new timeslot!
Location: conference room, fourth floor, RCC
Organizer: Catherine Ashcraft
This role-play simulation workshop invites you to participate in active learning and discussions about making decisions about dammed river systems and, more broadly, about how we make decisions to steward natural resources. The Pearl River is a facilitated, multi-issue negotiation simulation about the management of five dams in the fictional Pearl River basin, which is based on actual dam situations in the New England region of the USA (Diessner et al., 2020). Role-play negotiations, also called serious games or policy games, are used across a range of environmental policy contexts for education and outreach, to influence policy, and for research. The workshop includes an introduction, a short time to prepare (preparatory information will be provided in advance to registered participants), small group negotiations, a “debriefing” discussion about participants’ experiences with the simulation and its relevance to their own contexts and interests, and reflections from using role-play workshops in different settings.
Please register via email to catherine.ashcraft@unh.edu with “Pearl River Workshop” as subject line.
Preparatory information will be sent to registered participants in advance of the workshop. Additional information is in the abstract linked below.
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