To bring about the rapid transformative change needed to address the global sustainability crises, a paradigm shift is needed, characterized by more sustainable beliefs and attitudes. Therefore, this thesis explores the potentials of an escape game intervention as a new strategy to promote sustainable attitudes and beliefs in players, focusing on environmental sustainability. Firstly, a framework was created with Five Pillars for a successful environmental escape game: Fun, Experiential, Urgent, Problem-Rewarding and Social. Afterwards, this Five Pillars Framework guided the design and evaluation of an Environmental escape game called “Unlock the Future”. Based on the framework, an escape game with the Five Pillars was expected to increase players’ environmental attitudes and efficacy beliefs. To test this assumption, pre- and post-survey data was gathered from nine teams who played the escape game, using validated scales for environmental attitude, self-efficacy and collective efficacy, as well as an adapted version of the Game User Experience Satisfaction Scale. The survey results confirmed that all Five Pillars were present in the escape game design, and as a result players’ environmental self-efficacy and collective efficacy increased after playing the game. However, this effect was not present for players’ environmental attitude, nor for participants that were game hosts, or failed at the escape game.

Les Contrats de rivière et les Schémas d’Aménagement et de Gestion des Eaux font partie des nouveaux instruments d’action publique misant sur un gain d’efficacité environnementale par leur territorialisation. La recherche pose l’hypothèse que cette efficacité dépend de la manière dont les acteurs qui mettent en œuvre ces dispositifs se saisissent de leurs dimensions territoriales. Elle propose la notion de ressort territorial pour désigner l’ensemble des ressources territorialisées et territorialisantes issues des processus dialectiques et diachroniques entre les constructions territoriales autour de l’eau et les projets pour sa gestion. La recherche explore les stratégies territoriales déployées dans l’élaboration et la mise en œuvre de ces dispositifs et analyse leurs implications en termes de modification des représentations et des pratiques des usagers de l’eau et in fine de l’état environnemental des ressources et des milieux aquatiques. La démonstration s’appuie sur le cas empirique de la vallée de la Drôme dans les quatre dernières décennies. Le corpus est constitué de comptes-rendus de réunions, de documents de projets et d’articles de presse ainsi que d’entretiens et de cartes mentales réalisés auprès des usagers et des gestionnaires de l’eau.Les résultats de la recherche portent sur les mécanismes et les conditions par lesquels la gestion territoriale de l’eau peut être gage d’efficacité environnementale. Des facteurs déterminants sont mis en évidence : (i) la mise en synergie des projets de développement territorial avec ceux de la gestion environnementale ; (ii) la mobilisation des dimensions identitaires des dispositifs de gestion des eaux et (iii) les intentions et les capacités d’action de certains gestionnaires. A cet égard, les structures intercommunales, et en leur sein, les binômes élus/agents de développement, constituent des acteurs moteurs de l’activation des ressorts territoriaux de la gestion de l’eau. / River contracts and Plans for Water Development and Management are some of the new public action instruments aiming to improve environmental efficacy through regionalisation. Research suggests the hypothesis that this efficacy depends on how actors implementing these systems apprehend their regional dimensions. It proposes the idea of territorial feedback to indicate all the regional and regionalising resources resulting from dialectic and diachronic processes between regional constructions concerning water and projects for its management.The research explores the regional strategies used in drawing up and implementing these systems and analyses their implications in terms of modification of representations and practices and water uses, and hence the environmental condition of resources and aquatic environments. The demonstration uses the empirical case of the Drome valley over the past four decades. The body of the work consists of minutes of meetings, project documents and press articles as well as interviews and mind maps produced with water users and managers.The results of the research concern the mechanisms and conditions through which regional water management can be an indicator of environmental efficacy. Determining factors are provided: (i) assurance of synergy between regional development projects with those of environmental management; (ii) the use of identification dimensions of water management systems and (iii) the intentions and ability to act of certain managers. In this respect, intercommunity structures, and within these, the association of elected representative/development agents, act as the driving force in activating territorial feedback relative to water management.