Simulation and gaming in natural resource management

Simulation and gaming in natural resource management

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Simulation Gaming in Technology Management

This paper discusses business games as teaching tools in Technology Management (TM). The discipline’s traditional teaching methods, while appropriate for the dissemination of foundational knowledge, do not provide the optimal platform for students to link abstract concepts and real-world problems. We suggest that business simulation games are an effective way to engage students in TM topics; th...

A GIS-enabled Distributed Simulation Framework for Natural Resource Management

A distributed simulation framework is presented to enable natural resource managers to take advantage of both Geographic Information System (GIS) functionality and computationally intensive ecological modeling. Based on one of the newest products from a major vendor of GIS software (ESRI’s ArcGIS engine), a user interface was developed to manipulate and visualize digital maps and spatially expl...

Promoting Natural Resource Management with an Emphasis on Good Governance

Background and Objectives: Good governance has received a lot of attention regarding the better management of natural resources, because of its efforts to improve the ability of the natural resource management system. In other words, good governance can affect the socio-economic components of the region and ultimately the improvement of natural habitats. In this regard, evaluating good governan...