
Games
Long River Game
This is a six-party, seven-person (including the mediator), multi-issue mediation simulation game involving a dispute over developing an instream flow action plan. It introduces and explores the uses of a mutual gains approach to negotiation, mediation, and coalitions in a science-intensive dispute with high uncertainty. This game can be played with either 13 (2 per negotiating role + 1 mediator) or 7 (1 per negotiating role + 1 mediator) players. more:::
Offshore Wind Farm Game
Wind
energy is a viable source of clean, renewable energy. Large areas of America’s continental
shelf along the eastern seaboard are suitable sites for offshore
wind farms. The first such site has been formally proposed. It is located in Nantucket
Sound (Massachusetts) in federal waters. more:::
Owls Game
The construction of a network of new roads began five years ago across private and
public lands in the Western U.S. Years ago, the decision to expand the road network
was welcomed by many. People believed that it would increase the local forest industry’s
access to timber sources thereby fostering job creation and local development. more:::
Fisheries Game
It is widely
understood that mobile fishing gear (scallop and oyster dredges, otter trawls, beam
trawls, and roller-rigged trawls, the latter three used for harvesting groundfish)
impacts the seafloor. What is not well understood is how that impact effects essential
fish habitat (EFH). more:::
Rim/Sim Game
Rim Sim is a 6-hour, eight-party negotiation that focuses on creating a framework
for long-term disaster-recovery efforts. It involves a range of players from five
countries affected by two natural disasters: a typhoon about a year ago and an earthquake
about 6 months ago. more:::