“Coastal Challenge”: Severe Gaming for Climate Determination-Making

This workshop introduces Coastal Challenge, a web based critical recreation developed by the CMCC Foundation beneath the EU-funded REST-COAST venture to have interaction members in exploring coastal adaptation pathways. Designed as each an academic and reflective device, the sport simulates the advanced selections confronted in managing local weather dangers alongside in coastal areas.

In this critical recreation, gamers step into the function of a coastal decision-maker and are tasked with guiding considered one of three distinct coastal areas (a industrial port metropolis, a small vacationer and fishing city, or a coastal wetland farming space) by way of 30 years of local weather challenges. They should stability ecological, financial, and social priorities whereas addressing sea-level rise, excessive climate occasions, biodiversity loss, and shifting livelihoods. Grounded in real-world science and eventualities, the sport raises consciousness of coastal local weather dangers and explores a variety of operational and governance options, highlighting the trade-offs every entails.

During the session, members will first be taught in regards to the function and worth of great video games as instruments for local weather adaptation decision-making. They will then play Coastal Challenge in pairs, encouraging dialogue, information change, and networking, guided by facilitators who will assist them navigate methods and mirror on the outcomes of their selections. Whether you’re a policymaker, researcher, scholar, or practitioner, this expertise presents a possibility to have interaction in an progressive approach with the complexities of coastal adaptation.

The session will conclude with a structured debrief, permitting members to mirror on selections made, classes discovered, and their implications for real-world adaptation planning.

Moderated by : 

• Paola TANGUY, Coastal and Water Resilience Policy Specialist on the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Chance (CMCC Foundation).
• Mathilde Luna JOLY, PhD candidate on the University of Bologna and Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change.

Participants are strongly inspired to convey their very own laptops, which will probably be required to completely have interaction with the sport throughout this session.

Registration is obligatory and topic to availability.