Appui à l'implication des acteurs en gestion de l'eau contournant certains écueils de la participation

Extrait de documentThis paper presents a specific association of a Role Playing Game and an Agent-Based Model aiming to increase the empowerment of final users in collective decision-making processes for water management issues. Role Playing Games and simulations on a generic basin are a way to bring distance from private interests in dialogue processes. We describe here a tool, PIEPLUE, designed as a hybrid of a Role Playing Game and a Computer Based Agent-Based Model. This tool represents virtual farmers in a virtual river basin using water to irrigate various crops. The farmers choose individual organizational patterns concerning crop and water use choices. At the end of a simulated cropping season, players may adapt the collective rules for sharing water. This paper presents the results of a first test with the river basin institution of the Drôme River Valley in the south of France. It leads participants to become aware of their interactions and to think about the necessity of collective water management at various time scale