Global Sustainability Crossroads: A Participatory Simulation Game to Educate in the Energy and Sustainability Challenges of the 21st Century

Capellán-Pérez, Iñigo; Álvarez-Antelo, David; Miguel, Luis J.

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Global Sustainability Crossroads: A Participatory Simulation Game to Educate in the Energy and Sustainability Challenges of the 21st Century

Iñigo Capellán-Pérez

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David Álvarez-Antelo

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Luis J. Miguel

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Research Group on Energy, Economy and System Dynamics, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Paseo del Cauce s/n, University of Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain

Systems Engineering and Automatic Control, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Paseo del Cauce s/n, University of Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain

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Sustainability 2019, 11(13), 3672; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11133672

Received: 13 June 2019 / Revised: 1 July 2019 / Accepted: 2 July 2019 / Published: 4 July 2019

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There is a general need to facilitate citizens’ understanding of the global sustainability problem with the dual purpose of raising their awareness of the seriousness of the problem and helping them get closer to understanding the complexity of the solutions. Here, the design and application of the participatory simulation game Global Sustainability Crossroads is described, based on a global state-of-the-art energy–economy–environment model, which creates a virtual scenario where the participants are confronted with the design of climate mitigation strategies as well as the social, economic, and environmental consequences of decisions. The novelty of the game rests on the global scope and the representation of the drivers of anthropogenic emissions within the MEDEAS-World model, combined with a participatory simulation group dynamic flexible enough to be adapted to a diversity of contexts and participants. The performance of 13 game workshops with ~420 players has shown it has a significant pedagogical potential: the game is able to generate discussions on crucial topics which are usually outside the public realm such as the relationship between economic growth and sustainability, the role of technology, how human desires are limited by biophysical constraints or the possibility of climate tipping points. View Full-Text

Keywords: gamification; modelling; climate change; environmental education; participatory simulation

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Capellán-Pérez, I.; Álvarez-Antelo, D.; Miguel, L.J. Global Sustainability Crossroads: A Participatory Simulation Game to Educate in the Energy and Sustainability Challenges of the 21st Century. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3672. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11133672

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Capellán-Pérez I, Álvarez-Antelo D, Miguel LJ. Global Sustainability Crossroads: A Participatory Simulation Game to Educate in the Energy and Sustainability Challenges of the 21st Century. Sustainability. 2019; 11(13):3672. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11133672

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Capellán-Pérez, Iñigo, David Álvarez-Antelo, and Luis J. Miguel. 2019. "Global Sustainability Crossroads: A Participatory Simulation Game to Educate in the Energy and Sustainability Challenges of the 21st Century" Sustainability 11, no. 13: 3672. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11133672

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