TY - GEN
T1 - Using non-cooperative games to simulate ethical tensions in climate policy negotiations
AU - Spierre, Susan G.
AU - Seager, Thomas
AU - Selinger, Evan
AU - Sadowski, Jathan
PY - 2011/7/29
Y1 - 2011/7/29
N2 - Successfully implementing a system of global compliance to mitigate climate change requires collective, social decision making that is unprecedented among people with radically different values and radically different needs. Our novel pedagogy in sustainability ethics teaches future professionals about complex moral problems in a way that leverages their interests in experiment and experience through the use of non-cooperative game theory. This approach emphasizes active, participatory, and experiential learning that is intended to more deeply immerse students in questions of fairness, justice, and equity in the context of sustainability. Through testing the games and preparing complimentary educational material, we have found that the developed non-cooperative games are particularly effective at replicating the ethical tensions surrounding the issue of climate change. This method of teaching ethics may prime students to participate in more effective group deliberation in real-world policy negotiations.
AB - Successfully implementing a system of global compliance to mitigate climate change requires collective, social decision making that is unprecedented among people with radically different values and radically different needs. Our novel pedagogy in sustainability ethics teaches future professionals about complex moral problems in a way that leverages their interests in experiment and experience through the use of non-cooperative game theory. This approach emphasizes active, participatory, and experiential learning that is intended to more deeply immerse students in questions of fairness, justice, and equity in the context of sustainability. Through testing the games and preparing complimentary educational material, we have found that the developed non-cooperative games are particularly effective at replicating the ethical tensions surrounding the issue of climate change. This method of teaching ethics may prime students to participate in more effective group deliberation in real-world policy negotiations.
KW - Climate Change
KW - Collective Action
KW - International Climate Policy
KW - Non-cooperative Game Theory
KW - Sustainability Ethics
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U2 - 10.1109/ISSST.2011.5936882
DO - 10.1109/ISSST.2011.5936882
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960732027
SN - 9781612843926
T3 - Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2011
BT - Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2011
Y2 - 16 May 2011 through 18 May 2011
ER -