Stop disaster game 2

The article also touches upon ideas of game content, player motivation, skill-building and social interaction in the context of disaster themed video games. The findings suggest video games have the potential to be positive tools to reinforce messages surrounding DRR. Home publication Documents and publications Stop disasters 2.

Documents and publications. Author s. Build schools, hospitals, housing and defences to protect the local population. Play multiple realistic disaster scenarios including tsunami, wildfire and earthquakes.

The Toolkit brings together a wealth of new and existing information on tsunamis into a single, reliable, and verified global resource that is widely accessible to people, groups and governments around the world. There is a wealth of information online where you can learn more about natural hazards and how to prevent them from turning into disasters.

We have produced a series of five fact sheets that you can download, containing key facts and lots of links to further information. Many experts and organisations participated in the contents and the making of this game. UNDRR secretariat would like to thank particularly:.

Charles Kelly, Disaster Management Expert for the flood and hurricane scenario. Johann G. Laura S. Melanie Ashby, from the Emergency Management Australia for the wildfire scenario and the pilot testing. Many organizations, which supported the initiative from the beginning such as:. Jacques Faye, from the French Ministry of Ecology and sustainable development.

With thanks to the following people for the use of their photographs: Kevin Conners, Michelle Kwajafa, Carlos and Leah. UNDRR stands for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and brings many organizations, governments, universities, institutions and members of the civil society together for a common objective: implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the global plan to reduce disaster losses by Natural hazards, such as floods, earthquakes and volcanoes, do not need to become disasters.

For example, if volcanoes erupt in a location where nobody lives, the volcano eruption is just a natural hazard, but not a disaster. But if people living around the volcanoes are affected and even killed by the volcano eruption, in this case, the volcano eruption becomes a disaster. UNDRR proposes ways and measures to reduce the impact of disasters triggered by natural hazards. Many measures can be taken to reduce the impact of natural hazards. One is upgrading building constructions.

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