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    Hazagora: will you survive the next disaster? A serious game to raise awareness about geohazards and disaster risk reduction

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    Mossoux, s.
    Delcamp, A.
    Poppe, S.
    Michellier, C.
    Canters, F.
    Kervyn, M.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    Natural hazards
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2016
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    Natural disasters are too often presented as resulting from extreme natural phenomena affecting helpless populations, with people being insufficiently aware of the factors leading to disasters and of the existing strategies to mitigate their impacts. We developed a board game aimed at raising awareness about geohazards and disaster risk reduction strategies. The target groups are (1) secondary school students and citizens and (2) scientists and stakeholders involved in risk management activities. For the first group, the aim is to induce a better understanding of the geohazards and disasters they are confronted with in the media or in their daily lives; for the second, the objective is to generate discussion about risk management strategies. The game was tested with students in Belgium and with citizens, earth scientists, and risk managers in several African countries. Based on analysis of the most common game strategies observed, the players' reactions during the game, and their answers to a short questionnaire, we analyzed the main learning outcomes conveyed by this game. The game Hazagora appears to positively enhance the players' insights into processes involved in disasters. As such, the game is an effective, fun learning tool to introduce participants to the concepts of geohazards and disasters and to generate discussion.
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    Mossoux, s.; Delcamp, A.; Poppe, S.; Michellier, C.; Canters, F.; Kervyn, M. (2016). Hazagora: will you survive the next disaster? A serious game to raise awareness about geohazards and disaster risk reduction. , Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 16, 135-147, DOI: 10.5194/nhess-16-135-2016, 2016.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/2646
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-135-2016, 2016
    url: http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/16/135/2016/
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    Article
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    Yes
    Language
    eng
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