Society & Economicsarticle2026-10-08

Pathbreak: A Biodiversity-Food-Governance Game for experiential reimagination of social-environmental futures

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Abstract

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.

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexnpj BiodiversityPublished 2026-10-08

Authors: Ilkhom Soliev, Michał Pająk, Maryna Bykova, Marco A. Janssen

Institutions: University of Erfurt, Arizona State University, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Thüringer Aufbaubank