The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multistakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove socialecological systems

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1Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Universite´ Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, 2Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium, 3Mangrove Specialist Group (MSG), Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom, 4Interfaculty Institute of Social-Ecological Transitions - iiTSE, Universite´ Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, 5Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Sammanthurei, Sri Lanka, 6Department of Environmental Sciences, Open University of the Netherlands, Valkenburgerweg, Heerlen, Netherlands, 7Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity & Toxicology, Diepenbeek, Belgium, 8Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium, 9Department of Life & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science & Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom, 10Oceanography and Hydrography Department, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Mombasa, Kenya, 11Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka, 12SOcio-eNvironmental dYnamics research group (SONYA), Universite´ Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, 13Marine and Coastal Research Centre, Wildlife Research and Training Institute, Mombasa, Kenya, 14Department of Environment & Health Sciences, Marine & Fisheries Programme, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya, 15Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu - UMT, Terengganu, Malaysia, 16Multidisciplinary Institute for Teacher Education (MILO), Science & Technology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 17MSc Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management (Oceans & Lakes), Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB, Brussels, Belgium, 18Blue Ventures Madagascar, Villa Huguette, Cite´ Planton, Antananarivo, Madagascar