{"id":11610,"date":"2012-02-29T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=11610"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:18:08","slug":"game-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/game-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"GAMES FOR A NEW CLIMATE: GAME DESCRIPTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please arrive early for opening remarks and registration.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>GAME SESSION 1 (morning session 9:30 am)<\/em><\/strong><em>: \u00a0(all can play)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dissolving Disasters<\/span>: A Resilience Game where Donors Walk the Talk\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> (Subsistence farmers try to cope with changing rains. How will donors juggle between disaster preparedness and response?)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>GAME SESSION 2 (morning session 11:45 am)<\/em><\/strong><em>: (parallel games \u2013 select 1) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>a) <\/em><em>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Urban Trade-offs<\/span>: A Game on Adaptation and Mitigation Investments\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Builders bid for public funds to improve their city&#8217;s infrastructure,\u00a0threatened by\u00a0changing flood risks)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>OR<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>b) <\/em><em>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Humans versus Mosquitoes<\/span>: A Game on Dengue Risk Management\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Disease-carrying bugs try to bite humans and lay eggs to reproduce.\u00a0Will humans avoid being\u00a0bitten and clean up mosquito breeding grounds?) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>GAME SESSION 3 (afternoon session 2:00 pm)<\/em><\/strong><em>: (parallel game \u2013 select 1)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>c) \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Broken Cities<\/span>: A game on Sustainable Urban Development\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Developers shape a growing city. How will governments address the causes and consequences of climate change?)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>OR<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>d) \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FAIR<\/span>: A Game on Farmers, Aid, Insurance and Resilience\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Rural villages\u00a0face chronic food insecurity due to unreliable rains. Will innovative risk management schemes succeed in their promise to help?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please arrive early for opening remarks and registration. GAME SESSION 1 (morning session 9:30 am): \u00a0(all can play) \u201cDissolving Disasters: A Resilience Game where Donors Walk the Talk\u201d (Subsistence farmers try to cope with changing rains. How will donors juggle between disaster preparedness and response?) GAME SESSION 2 (morning session 11:45 am): (parallel games \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3069,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11614,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11610\/revisions\/11614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}