Riskville - A Game for Learning about Disaster Risks and Urban Planning
November 2018 (VOL. 36, NO. 3)
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societies worldwide by disseminating information about risks and in improving people’s
risk awareness. This, in turn, helps them to prepare, cope with and recover from possible
disaster events, hence making the societies more resilient. This paper shortly presents the
theoretical background and the rules of the game Riskville where the participants get to
experience in a hands-on manner the connections and conflicts between urban planning,
different interests and climate related risks. We conclude that Riskville promotes
discussions on different perspectives on disaster risk and resilience and approaches in
including them into urban planning.