THE BEACON PROJECT

The Beacon Project is an interdisciplinary scientific research programme that uses large hydropower development as a model system to investigate trade-offs between different United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)... Our aim in The Beacon Project is to work with stakeholders from local to global scales to increase equity in sustainable development decision-making and develop new evidence-informed ways to tackle global challenges. To help realise the goals of The Beacon Project, we work with many project partners and collaborators all over the world, including in Brazil, Kazakhstan, India, the USA and UK... Working with game developers at Hyperluminal Games we have developed a video game for mobile phones called "Power Up!". Players manage their game world and make choices surrounding hydropower energy generation, river and land biodiversity conservation, community prosperity and decision-making equity. Game play decisions are collected, so by playing the game, people can..