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1 | Risks | Impacts | Game Mechanics/Scenarios | Personal Skill Learned | UN SDG | Knowledge/Recognition of Problem | Understanding the concept | Region |
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3 | Air Pollution | Urban Horticulture | Gardening | Livelihood creation, fertiliser-free food | Sustainable Cities & Communities | Urban horticulture can provide people with nutritious food that can be controlled for fertilizer use. It can also be a source of livelihood creation for women. | Urban Horticulture or rooftop gardening can help in increasing the green cover of an urban area, countering the urban heat island effect caused by compact city designs and energy radiated by buildings, vehicles, and other human activities. | Global |
4 | Flooding & Drought Cycles | Wildfires | Preparing for wildfires | Prevention and Preparation | Climate Action | Hotter and Drier weathers causing wildfires and destroying forests. | A large number of wildfires are caused by humans, aggravated by hotter and drier weathers. Naturally occurring wildfires can spark during dry weather and droughts. In these conditions, normally green vegetation can convert into bone-dry, flammable fuel; strong winds spread fire quickly; and warm temperatures encourage combustion. With these ingredients, the only thing missing is a spark—in the form of lightning, arson, a downed power line, or a burning campfire or cigarette—to wreak havoc. (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/wildfires/) | Global |
5 | Flooding & Drought Cycles | Water shortage | Plumbing | Preventing leakages/Saving water | Responsible Consumption & Production | Loss of water due to leakages that are not taken care of; fixing plumbing issues to save water and money | Leakages in bathrooms and kitchens lead to a great deal of water loss, especially in regions that use it extensively instead of toilet paper. These regions do not always have the resources to fix the issue immediately. | Global |
6 | Flooding & Drought Cycles | Water shortage | Rainwater Harvesting/Drip irrigation | Water conservation/urban farming | Responsible Consumption & Production | Avoiding water wastage; preserving crop nutrients; reusing rain water. | Urban Horticulture or rooftop gardening can help in increasing the green cover of an urban area, countering the urban heat island effect caused by compact city designs and energy radiated by buildings, vehicles, and other human activities. Drip irrigation is the most efficient water and nutrient delivery system for growing crops. It delivers water and nutrients directly to the plant’s roots zone, in the right amounts, at the right time, so each plant gets exactly what it needs, when it needs it, to grow optimally. Thanks to drip irrigation, farmers can produce higher yields while saving on water as well as fertilizers, energy and even crop protection products. | Global |
7 | Flooding & Drought Cycles | Urban flooding | Urban Planning | Planning and strategizing | Sustainable Cities & Communities | Lack of urban planning in cities casues them to build infrastructure haphazardly, impacting the natual infrastructure negatively and increasing the chances of floods to occur. | Floods occur when large volumes of runoff flow quickly into streams and rivers. The peak discharge of a flood is influenced by many factors, including the intensity and duration of storms and snowmelt, the topography and geology of stream basins, vegetation, and the hydrologic conditions preceding storm and snowmelt events. Land use and other human activities also influence the peak discharge of floods by modifying how rainfall and snowmelt are stored on and run off the land surface into streams. In undeveloped areas such as forests and grasslands, rainfall and snowmelt collect and are stored on vegetation, in the soil column, or in surface depressions. When this storage capacity is filled, runoff flows slowly through soil as subsurface flow. In contrast, urban areas, where much of the land surface is covered by roads and buildings, have less capacity to store rainfall and snowmelt. Construction of roads and buildings often involves removing vegetation, soil, and depressions from the land surface. The permeable soil is replaced by impermeable surfaces such as roads, roofs, parking lots, and sidewalks that store little water, reduce infiltration of water into the ground, and accelerate runoff to ditches and streams. Even in suburban areas, where lawns and other permeable landscaping may be common, rainfall and snowmelt can saturate thin soils and produce overland flow, which runs off quickly. Dense networks of ditches and culverts in cities reduce the distance that runoff must travel overland or through subsurface flow paths to reach streams and rivers. Once water enters a drainage network, it flows faster than either overland or subsurface flow. (https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs07603/) | Global |
8 | Flooding & Drought Cycles | Water shortage | Urban Horticulture | Water conservation | Responsible Consumption & Production | Traditional farming methods in an urban set up lead to excessive use of water, damaging crop yield and causing water wastage. | Urban Horticulture or rooftop gardening can help in increasing the green cover of an urban area, countering the urban heat island effect caused by compact city designs and energy radiated by buildings, vehicles, and other human activities. Drip irrigation is the most efficient water and nutrient delivery system for growing crops. It delivers water and nutrients directly to the plant’s roots zone, in the right amounts, at the right time, so each plant gets exactly what it needs, when it needs it, to grow optimally. Thanks to drip irrigation, farmers can produce higher yields while saving on water as well as fertilizers, energy and even crop protection products | Global |
9 | Food & Water Security | Agricultural yield | Gardening | Shifting weather pattens, weeds, pests, disease | Zero Hunger | Changing climate impacts the soil, rain patterns, nutrients for plantations, increased sun exposure, and growth of certain pests/insects. | As our climate continues to heat up and the impacts of that warming grow more frequent and severe, farmers and farm communities around the world will be increasingly challenged. The combination of advancing climate change and an already-vulnerable industrial system is a “perfect storm” that threatens farmers’ livelihoods and our food supply. armers choose crop varieties and animal breeds that are well suited to local conditions. As those conditions shift rapidly over the coming decades, many farmers will be forced to rethink some of their choices—which can mean making new capital investments, finding new markets, and learning new practices. (https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-change-and-agriculture) | Global |
10 | Heatwaves | Heat Islands | Urban Horticulture | Gardening | Sustainable Cities & Communities | The term "heat island" describes built up areas that are hotter than nearby rural areas. Heat islands can affect communities by increasing summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, heat-related illness and mortality, and water pollution. | Urban Horticulture or rooftop gardening can help in increasing the green cover of an urban area, countering the urban heat island effect caused by compact city designs and energy radiated by buildings, vehicles, and other human activities. | Developing countries |
11 | Heatwaves | Heat Islands | Urban Forests | City planning | Sustainable Cities & Communities | The term "heat island" describes built up areas that are hotter than nearby rural areas. Heat islands can affect communities by increasing summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, heat-related illness and mortality, and water pollution. | The implementation of urban forests will improve air quality, reduce the urban heat island effect, make positive changes to mental health, save energy, reduce stress, and mitigate floods. | Global |
12 | Heatwaves | Wildfires | Forests | Awareness of benefits; air quality; animal protection | Life on Land | Wildfires causing the loss of tree cover in forests impacts the air quality, the oxygen available to human beings and animals. | Forests provide us with shelter, livelihoods, water, food and fuel security. All these activities directly or indirectly involve forests. Some are easy to figure out - fruits, paper and wood from trees, and so on. Others are less obvious, such as by-products that go into everyday items like medicines, cosmetics and detergents. Looking at it beyond our narrow, human – not to mention urban – perspective, forests provide habitats to diverse animal species. They are home to 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, and they also form the source of livelihood for many different human settlements, including 60 million indigenous people. After oceans, forests are the world’s largest storehouses of carbon. (https://wwf.panda.org/our_work/forests/importance_forests/) | Global |
13 | Heatwaves | Urban Heatwaves | Heat Action Plan | Preparing and organizing | Sustainable Cities & Communities | Cities are not always well prepared to deal with rising temperatures. Increasing temperatures cause deaths, respiratory problems, dehydration, and other health-related illnesses. | Governments and local authorities are responsible for protecting citizens when disasters hit. With rising temperatures across the globe, policymakers need to develop tools that can help prepare cities adapt to the changing environment. | Global |
14 | Heatwaves | Construction site/Day Laborers | Manage Exposure | Preparing and organizing | Decent Work & Economic Growth | Construction workers or laborers suffer from heat storkes, heat exhaustion and other health issues due to continued exposure to the sun. | Exposure to heat affects the productivity of workers, impacting the economy in the long run. | Global |
15 | Heatwaves | Poor Construction Practices | Urban Planning | Identifying heat radiating materials | Sustainable Cities & Communities | Rapid urbanization does not allow enough time for cities to plan properly for the population explosion. In developing countries especially, construction is done rapidly and in inexpensive ways. | Due to the lack of planning and financial resources, construction companies are expected to build using the available space and cheap materials. They do not take into consideration the direction of the wind and the sun as they construct the buildings. Materials and paint used on these buildings do not reflect heat and in fact trap the heat, causing temperatures to rise. | |
16 | Migration | Hosts for migrants | Learn about taking care of migrants; providing livelihood tools; supporting financial independence of migrants | Peace & Justice & Strong Institutions | People are not prepared with the understanding of what to do when migrants are moving to their community. They are unaware of ways to help them feel comfortable in the new place. Some communities are also unwelcoming to the migrants. | As migrants pick up their lives and move to new locations, they are scared and nervous of what they are heading into. Preparing host communities with the right kind of mindset and information can help the situation better for both migrants and hosts. | Latin America | |
17 | Migration | Personal security | Learning ways to protect oneself during migration | Peace & Justice & Strong Institutions | Assaults on women and girls; being robbed or murdered; lack of food and water resources; children being kidnapped; drug abuse | In their journey, migrants face plenty of challenges. They walk for days at length with minimal resources and are susceptible to harm by people taking advantage of their situation. | Global | |
18 | Migration | Human trafficking | Understanding how this takes place to recognize ways that will protect them; to provide girls/women with information on health issues - physical and mental; helping them enter the workforce | Gender Equality | Global | |||
19 | Oceans | Damage to Natural Infrastructure, Mangroves, Wetlands | Planting wetlands | Planning/planting; understanding benefits | Life on Land | They are getting hotter because they absorb 90 percent of the extra heat in the climate. This shift causes the oceans to expand, contributing to higher sea levels, and strips corals of their vivid colors. Meanwhile, nearly a third of carbon dioxide emissions end up in the oceans, triggering a chemistry change that makes the water more acidic, dissolving the shells of sea creatures. The ocean is almost 40 percent more acidic than it used to be. | Climate change manifests itself primarily through changes in the water cycle. As climate changes, droughts, floods, melting glaciers, sea-level rise and storms intensify or alter, often with severe consequences. Climate change impacts have direct consequences for water security and conflict. In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change adaptation will have to build climate resilience. Climate resilience is strengthened through healthy ecosystem services that rely on well-functioning river basins. Effective country-driven climate change adaptation should reflect the importance of water management in reducing vulnerability and building climate resilience. (https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/water-and-climate-change) | Global |
20 | Oceans | Island nations | Urban planning | Preparing for floods, tsunamis, rising water levels | Sustainable Cities & Communities | Global | ||
21 | Oceans | Fish/acquatic life conservation/coral reefs | Gaining awareness of the damage, learning ways to reduce and reverse the damage | Life Below Water | Global | |||