The Mercury Game
Leah Stokes, Rebecca Saari
Thu Jan 26, 01:30-04:30pm, E51-151
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Jan-2012
Limited to 10 participants.
Single session event
\*\*Please only sign up if you will be fully committed to attending and participating as a player of the game. Please email Leah at lstokes@mit.edu to sign up.\*\*
This Mercury Game is a role-play simulation aimed at scientists and students. Playing the game will help participants explore the consequences of representing scientific uncertainty in various ways in a policy context. The game focuses on the credibility of various sources of technical information, strategies for representing risk and uncertainty, and the balance between scientific and political considerations.
The game will also require the players to grapple with political considerations. It explores the dynamic between the global “North” (the developed world) and the global “South” (the developing world) at the heart of most treaty-making difficulties. Ultimately, the role play should help to make clear how scientific information can be favorably employed in an environmental treaty making process.
The results of the game will be used in a doctoral research project on the relationship between science and policy in international environmental negotiations.
Web: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/event-item.php?id=472
Contact: Leah Stokes, E19-411, lstokes@mit.edu
Sponsor: Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
Latest update: 11-Jan-2012
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