Issue №13. December 2007

Environmental Policy: Management Games

University of Sassari, Italy.

The article gives a brief overview of several games and examines in detail “SOS”, an online multiplayer game designed to demonstrate, at least partially, the complex problems of environmental policy. “SOS” is an attempt to present the basics of environmental education by describing the complexities and the modalities, where individual actions are connected to the state, international and global policy. The authors are convinced that this game is a valuable contribution to the creation of a system of instruments used not to simplify the reality, but rather to use its complex nature.

Keywords

Games, imitation games, management games, game of “SOS”, multiplayer online game, environmental policy, environmental education.