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Fig. 12.4 Flowchart of financial, technical and social solutions agreed on by the participants of
the AtollGame experiment

Finally, the project team introduced the fact that the water management agency
was no longer able to maintain the reticulated system due to a poor recovery of
the service fees. It had for immediate consequence a sharp decrease of the water
quantity offered on Island 2.
Then, players from both tables were asked to list solutions to improve the
situation on their island. When the two lists were completed, the project team and
the participants built a flowchart of financial, technical and social solutions, taking
into account issues from both islands (Fig. 12.4).
A collective analysis of the flowchart concluded that the actual situation was
largely unsustainable either from a financial or social viewpoint. The flowchart
above provides a set of interdependent solutions that should be explored in order
to gradually address the present situation.

12.6 Discussion: Relations Between Participants and Models

The diverse categories of joint implementation of participatory approaches and
social simulation modelling feature a diversity of relations between a set of people,
participants and a model.