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In this guest editorial, we survey some of the main themes and issues in anthropogenic global warming. We emphasize the great potential of simulation/games as an educational strategy. The diversity of issues in climate change is matched by the variety of simulation/games. We then provide a summary of the main points of each of the eight articles, which together contain a wide range of perspectives on climate change, of types of simulation/gaming, of level of abstraction, and of method of implementation.

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adaptation global warming climate climate board game climate change climate-change simulation/games climate negotiations climate politics companion modeling CO2 emissions ecological systems economic development energy fossil fuels game design global politics greenhouse gases interdisciplinarity knowledge coproduction mitigation natural disasters renewable energies role-playing simulation/games social networks sustainability UNFCCC water management

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