Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, India

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierRuth Meinzen-Dick: 0000-0003-4782-3074
cg.creator.identifierSophie Theis: 0000-0003-4277-7080
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.02.006
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Experimental games for strengthening collective action
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Groundwater governance: Managing the world’s most precious natural resource
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.identifier.wlethemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn0305-750X
cg.issueJuly 2018
cg.journalWorld Development
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.wleGROUNDWATER
cg.subject.wleWATER MANAGEMENT
cg.volume107
dc.contributor.authorMeinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
dc.contributor.authorJanssen, Marco A.
dc.contributor.authorKandikuppa, Sandeep
dc.contributor.authorChaturvedi, Rahul
dc.contributor.authorRao, Kaushalendra
dc.contributor.authorTheis, Sophie
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-06T12:29:16Zen
dc.date.available2019-02-06T12:29:16Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/99299
dc.titlePlaying games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, Indiaen
dcterms.abstractGroundwater is one of the most challenging common pool resources to govern, resulting in resource depletion in many areas. We present an innovative use of collective action games to not only measure propensity for cooperation, but to improve local understanding of groundwater interrelationships and stimulate collective governance of groundwater, based on a pilot study in Andhra Pradesh, India. The games simulate crop choice and consequences for the aquifer. These were followed by a community debriefing, which provided an entry point for discussing the interconnectedness of groundwater use, to affect mental models about groundwater. A slightly modified game was played in the same communities, one year later. Our study finds communication within the game increased the likelihood of groups reaching sustainable extraction levels in the second year of play, but not the first. Individual payments to participants based on how they played in the game had no effect on crop choice. Either repeated experience with the games or the revised structure of the game evoked more cooperation in the second year, outweighing other factors influencing behavior, such as education, gender, and trust index scores. After the games were played, a significantly higher proportion of communities adopted water registers and rules to govern groundwater, compared to other communities in the same NGO water commons program. Because groundwater levels are affected by many factors, games alone will not end groundwater depletion. However, games can contribute to social learning about the role of crop choice and collective action, to motivate behavior change toward more sustainable groundwater extraction.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMeinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Janssen, Marco A.; Kandikuppa, Sandeep; Chaturvedi, Rahul; Rao, Kaushalendra; Theis, Sophie. 2018. Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, India. World Development 107(July 2018): 40-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.02.006en
dcterms.extent40-53
dcterms.issued2018-07
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevier
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148115en
dcterms.relationhttp://www.ifpri.org/blog/playing-games-save-wateren
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133794en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134238en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134949en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/6208
dcterms.subjectwater managementen
dcterms.subjectcollective actionen
dcterms.subjectgroundwateren
dcterms.subjectlearningen
dcterms.subjectcollective behaviouren
dcterms.subjectstakeholdersen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectgroundwater irrigationen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater tableen
dcterms.subjectvarietiesen
dcterms.subjectaquifersen
dcterms.subjectstakeholder engagementen
dcterms.subjectexperimental designen
dcterms.subjectawareness-raisingen
dcterms.subjectbehavioural responsesen
dcterms.subjectself-sufficiencyen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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