The Landscapes Game teaches players to maximize revenues while introducing them to landscape conservation, sustainable development, environmental services, investment alternatives, trade, competition and collaboration. CIFOR/Michelle Kovacevic
Life. Risk. Monopoly. Board games such as these can reflect and diffuse frameworks for thinking about life, war, even land use.
But frameworks change with the times, and a board game recently developed by a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) seeks to provide an alternative by helping people to understand and manage contemporary problems related to land use and economics.
The Landscape Game, invented by scientist Herry Purnomo, stands in stark contrast to a more familiar game that encompasses those same themes.
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