Social science

The My Coastal Futures game was developed to help people understand climate change impacts and start thinking about how they might adapt.

This five-year NIWA-led research programme is developing a system to map flood hazard consistently across the whole country. It will reveal how our flood risk might change over the next 100 years because of changes to rainfall and sea level from climate change, as well as due to land-use changes.

A new online simulation game that enables New Zealanders to experience a climate-changed future and explore choices has been launched.

NIWA has developed an adaptation simulation game - Future Coasts Aotearoa - created to discover people’s behaviours and preferences on sea-level rise adaptation. 

A serious game simulating a coastal lowland scenario under climate change to support adaptation decision-making and community engagement.

In this activity, you will play NIWA's online serious game, Township Flood Challenge.

Climate adaptation resources for teachers

NIWA is using serious games to look at problems holistically, support understanding and give a framework for adaptation decisions.

NIWA is using serious games to look at problems holistically and provide a framework for climate change adaptation decision-making.

Farmers visiting Fieldays at Mystery Creek in June could not have missed the take-home message: that science and innovation are key to their continued success.