The Climate Game

«The Climate Game» is a pop-up experiment that allows us to study how individuals cooperate to face a collective risk such as climate change. We propose a classic social dilemma based on cooperative game theory, a public goods game, around the negotiations to deal with climate change in which the inequalities between the actors take the main role. The outlines of the experiment published in PlosOne revealed that inequalities around climate change negotiations are tougher on individuals, societies, and organizations with few resources, who are, at the same time, the ones that show higher cooperation levels in relative terms.

In this project, we use an early gamified version of the Citizen Social Lab platform to collect citizens' interactions and we use participatory science principles to engage citizens in participation in science activities. The main experiment was performed at DAU festival, where 324 individuals contributed with their actions, and almost 200 individuals participated in the two replications of the experiment in the wild. The platform, the scientific results, the data, and the codes are publicly available following the open science principles.

Updates

01/11/18 Blog post

Blog post with a summary of the main result of the research.

31/10/18 Paper publication in PlosOne

Vicens, J., Bueno-Guerra, N., Gutiérrez-Roig, M., Gracia-Lázaro, C., Gómez-Gardeñes, J., Perelló, J., Sanchez, A., Moreno, Y. & Duch, J. (2018). «Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation». PLoS ONE; 13(10):10.1371/journal.pone.0204369.

31/10/18 Open Codes

The codes of the paper: Vicens, J. et al. (2018). «Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation». can be found in this repository.

31/10/18 Open Data

The dataset of the paper: Vicens, J. et al. (2018). «Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation». can be found in this repository.

08/09/17 Pre-print arXiv

Vicens, J., Bueno-Guerra, N., Gutiérrez-Roig, M., Gracia-Lázaro, C., Gómez-Gardeñes, J., Perelló, J., Sanchez, A., Moreno, Y. & Duch, J. (2017). «Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation». arXiv:1709.02857.

23/12/15 Convent Sant Pere Experiment

Experiment replication at Convent Sant Pere with the participation of 42 individuals.

22/12/15 Orlandai Experiment

Experiment replication at Casa Orlandai with the participation of 60 individuals.

12-13/12/15 DAU Experiment

Peformance of the main experiment in DAU festival during the weekend of 12th and 13th December with the participation of 324 individuals.