Cooperating for added value: Using participatory game theory in implementing nature-based flood defences

Vreugdenhil, H.S.I.; Janssen, Stephanie; Hermans, L.M.; Slinger, J

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106507

Cooperating for added value

Title

Cooperating for added value: Using participatory game theory in implementing nature-based flood defences

Author

Vreugdenhil, H.S.I. (TU Delft Policy Analysis; Deltares)
Janssen, Stephanie (Deltares)
Hermans, L.M. (TU Delft Policy Analysis; IHE Delft Institute for Water Education)
Slinger, J (TU Delft Policy Analysis; Rhodes University)

Date

2022

Abstract

The increasingly active role of stakeholders in the development of innovative nature-based solutions calls for appropriate instruments to support and realise added value from their involvement. In this paper we apply a newly developed instrument “Cooperation for Added Value” (Co-Add) to a study area on the Dutch coast. The instrument draws on participatory game theory and policy analysis to provide a theoretically sound structure for facilitating interactions aimed at identifying shared opportunities and potential coalitions for cooperation. The application in the case study Noard-Fryslân Bûtendyks affirmed that the Co-Add instrument systematically facilitated stakeholders in exploring potentially promising opportunities and gaining insight in the added value of engaging in diverse cooperations. Stakeholders came to understand which solutions were more achievable than others and what was needed to enable implementation in terms of collaboration, including the role of their own organization. Furthermore, social dilemmas in which a particular nature-based solution is attractive to a coalition of stakeholders but is not the most beneficial solution for a particular individual stakeholder, became clear. This represents a practical contribution to the range of participatory instruments that can be applied in societally challenging complex problems that require collaboration for their resolution.

Subject

Coalitions
Nature-based solutions
Participatory game theory
Policy analysis
Social dilemma
Wadden sea

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106507

ISSN

0925-8574

Source

Ecological Engineering, 176

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