Pathbreak: A Biodiversity-Food-Governance Game for experiential reimagination of social-environmental futures
Social dilemmas are central to addressing biodiversity loss, yet tools to make them tangible remain critically scarce. Pathbreak: A Biodiversity-Food-Governance Game provides an engaging and hands-on experience to explore social dilemmas between short- and long-term, individual and collective interests, alongside those pertaining to trust, elections, democracy, intersectionality, and power. The platform offers researchers and practitioners a unique arena to study and foster collective learning and reimagine alternative social-environmental futures.
Authors
- Ilkhom Soliev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6780-2038)
- Marco A. Janssen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-9052)
- Michał Pająk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4328-7123)
- Maryna Bykova
Institutions
- University of Erfurt (DE)
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (DE)
- Wroclaw University of Economics and Business (PL)
- Thüringer Aufbaubank (DE)
- Arizona State University (US)
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Biodiversity
- Published
- 2026-10-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-026-00160-7
- Primary Topic
- Educational Games and Gamification
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00