NEW CHALLENGES, NEW APPROACHES: FOSTER FOREST, A SERIOUS GAME TO SIMULATE AND STIMULATE ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE (Abstract)

摘要

© AgroParisTech, 2021.Despite in-depth research, the capacity of forests and foresters to adapt to climate change still remains uncer-tain. Faced with these uncertainties, private and public foresters try to diversify their practices, but they mainly focus on technical forestry practices. The serious game Foster Forest is aimed at supplementing these technical approaches based on socioeconomic adaptations invented by the participants. This simulation tool was developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. To our knowledge, it is the first such citizen-science-based tool aimed at assessing the evolution of a temperate forest stand within a scenario of eco-nomic and climatic uncertainties. The article presents the creation, the deployment and the learnings of the Foster Forest workshops held in various places in France. A new, free-of-charge, “prospective” online version for forest management or training structures is also presented.