This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. Choose scenario tsunami, hurricane, wild fire, earthquake, flood. Build new houses, schools, hospitals. Protect buildings, make upgrades, demolish unsafe houses. Discover problems with managing city and dealing with natural disasters. Training in disaster preparedness, disaster management and connected problems.
How to run this game? Play the game on the external page. The Nordic way — How to discover the joy of learning via a game-based approach. Online gaming as an educational tool for sustainability. 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. On many occasions, earthquakes do not kill people, but houses do when they collapse. If we build earthquake resilient houses in areas prone to earthquakes, people will have a much better chance of survival when disasters strike. Legislation is another measure.
If the construction of hotels is prohibited up to metres from the sea, tourists will be safer if there is a flood or a hurricane. Education is also a strategic measure to reduce the negative impact of natural hazards. People who understand natural hazards and risk reduction are likely to survive during disasters.
For example, many people from the Semilieu Island survived during the tsunami in the Indian Ocean because they knew that when an earthquake strikes their island there is a high risk of tsunami and they have to run to higher ground. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is a fifteen year, voluntary, non-binding agreement. Its goals are to prevent new risks, reduce existing risks and strengthen resilience to natural and man-made hazards in order to achieve a substantial reduction of disaster losses.
Children are one of the most vulnerable groups when disasters occur. If we teach them from an early age about the risks posed by natural hazards, children will have a better chance to save their lives during disasters. This online game aims at teaching children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters.
Children will learn through playing how the location and the construction materials of houses can make a difference when disasters strike and how early warning systems, evacuation plans and education can save lives. Children are the future architects, mayors, doctors, and parents of the world of tomorrow.
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