--- title: Playing against climate risk | daily.dev description: MIT researcher Sai Ravela and collaborators developed game-based computer simulations to help coastal communities in India and Bangladesh understand and plan... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/playing-against-climate-risk-oie8qrw2y twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Playing against climate risk | daily.dev og:description: MIT researcher Sai Ravela and collaborators developed game-based computer simulations to help coastal communities in India and Bangladesh understand and plan... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/playing-against-climate-risk-oie8qrw2y og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oiE8qRW2y.png og:image:alt: Playing against climate risk og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Playing against climate risk **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT researcher Sai Ravela and collaborators developed game-based computer simulations to help coastal communities in India and Bangladesh understand and plan for climate risks such as flooding, drought, and soil salinization. The project, funded by a J-WAFS India Grant, uses downscaled climate models combined with participatory board and app-based games played in villages in the Sundarbans region. Players test interventions like embankments, mangrove restoration, and agrivoltaics, often converging on cooperative strategies like shared insurance pools rather than individual optimization. The approach aims to democratize decision-making, letting communities explore risky choices safely and build policy proposals from their own experience, with interest expanding to Bangladesh, Thailand, and potentially other regions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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