scholarly journals Playing games for risk prevention: design, implementation and testing of serious games in recent European projects UPStrat-MAFA and KnowRISK

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (Vol 63 (2020)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Solarino ◽  
Monica Amaral Ferreira ◽  
Gemma Musacchio ◽  
Elena Eva
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Urban Disaster ◽  
Risk Education ◽  
Reduce Risk ◽  
European Projects ◽  
Standard Learning

In the last decade, bottom-up strategies of risk education have raised importance, making serious games to become an alternative or complementary teaching tool for enhancing skills for a collaborative and adaptive response to social-ecological challenges. This study describes issues and challenges of serious games implemented within the framework of two European projects, namely UPStrat-MAFA (Urban Disaster Prevention Strategies using Macroseismic Fields and FAult sources) and KnowRISK (Know your city, Reduce seISmic risK through non-structural elements); the goal is to instil in young people a proactive attitude towards the mitigation of seismic risk . The games were tested in some dissemination events focussed on fostering seismic risk preparedness in students and improving good practices. We discuss the performance of our games even against more standard approaches to risk education. Our experience shows a rise of students’ engagement compared to standard learning activities. The games were effective as students were able to grasp the most relevant actions to reduce risk.

scholarly journals A PROTOCOL TO COMMUNICATE SEISMIC RISK IN SCHOOLS: DESIGN, TEST AND ASSESSMENT IN ITALY

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (Vol 63 (2020)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Musacchio ◽  
Elena Eva ◽  
Massimo Crescimbene ◽  
Nicola Pino ◽  
Lorenzo Cugliari
Keyword(s):  
Situated Learning ◽  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Risk Education ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

The best chance to achieve a future disaster-resilient society is through risk education in school: it has a great potential to strengthen capacity of communities to mitigate risks. The KnowRISK (Know your city, Reduce seISmic risK through non-structural elements) project gave the opportunity to implement a risk communication campaign for schools in Portugal, Italy, and Iceland. The idea was that suitably changes in people’s knowledge and attitude can trigger best practices. Crucial to reach such target is the raise of awareness on meaningful issues. The main challenge of the campaign was how to effectively address the mitigation of the vulnerability to earthquakes of non-structural elements, which is an issue considered to be of low priority even in the building regulations of many countries around the world. The campaign stood on a communication strategy that was systematized within a protocol, for 13-15 years old students, that specifies goals, contents, learning strategy, support material, and relies on face-to- face intervention of scientists in the classroom. This protocol had training sessions bounded by assessment sessions, ex-ante and ex-post, that allowed to validate its efficacy. The training made large use of flipped learning and Episode of Situated Learning (EAS) strategy to raise student’s motivation and increase achievements. To ensure its replicability, the protocol was tested in zones matching a wide range of seismic hazard in Italy. The assessment showed the protocol be effective and ready for a wide dissemination.  

Probabilistic Assessment of Reliability and Risk Values by Certification Results

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-67
Author(s):  
Vladimir A. Lapin ◽  
Erken S. Aldakhov ◽  
S. D. Aldakhov ◽  
A. B. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Seismic Resistance ◽  
Probabilistic Assessment ◽  
Quantitative Estimates ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Reduce Risk ◽  
First Time ◽  
Structural Solutions ◽  
Practical Recommendations

For the first time in Almaty full passport of apartment stock of multiapartment building was carried out. The structure of the housing stock was revealed with the allocation of groups of buildings according to structural solutions and assessment of their seismic resistance. Based on the results of certification, quantitative estimates of failure probability values for different types of buildings were obtained. Formulas for estimation of quantitative value of seismic risk are obtained. The number of deaths in the estimated zem-shakes was estimated. The results of the assessments will be used for practical recommendations to reduce risk and expected losses in possible earthquakes.

Violence Against Women in Turkey: A Social Ecological Framework of Determinants and Prevention Strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-526
Author(s):  
Kader Tekkas Kerman ◽  
Patricia Betrus
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
The Body ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Ecological Framework ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Social Ecological Framework

Violence against women (VAW) in Turkey is concerning, and to develop and implement effective prevention strategies for addressing it, careful consideration must be given to the factors that influence it. In this review, we synthesized the body of literature on VAW in Turkey according to a social ecological framework, which is a theoretical model considering the complex interplay between individual, relationship, community, and societal factors. Consistent with this framework, we obtained research articles and commentaries in Turkish and English from a variety of national and international databases and websites regarding risk factors, cultural practices violating women’s rights, and trends and current practices, including prevention efforts. Our review revealed that factors influencing VAW are marriage at young age, lower education level, alcohol abuse, and childhood trauma or abuse history for individual level; having multiple partners, low relationship satisfaction, and forced marriage for relationship level; poverty, lack of social support, and lack of employment opportunities for community level; cultural acceptance of men’s superiority and dominance over women, acceptance of violence, cultural practices, and weak legal sanctions for societal level. Additionally, we reviewed multilevel prevention strategies in the extant literature on effective prevention and intervention efforts according to social ecological framework and proposed research, practice, and policy implications derived from this framework.

scholarly journals Seismic risk communication: let’s students show their own way

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (Vol 63 (2020)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Piangiamore ◽  
Susanna Falsaperla ◽  
Elena Eva ◽  
Gemma Musacchio
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Communication Campaign ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Risk Education ◽  
The Way

Risk communication has been playing an increasing role in modern society and in our lives. Normally framed to prompt reduction of vulnerability to hazards, it tackles issues ranging from prevention to preparedness and addresses a variety of stakeholders, each with a specific role within a community. However, the way to have the most effective risk communication in the long run is to engage young people: they seed the roots that shape future, increase the potential impact of risk mitigation and help build community resilience. This is the vision that drives the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) intervention in the field of seismic risk education. The “Are you taking too many risks?” was a school contest that INGV carried out for the schools involved in the risk communication campaign “Know your school: be safe!” of the project KnowRISK (Know your city, Reduce seISmic risK through non-structural elements) funded by the European Commission DG-ECHO. Students, within a framework of cooperative learning, were asked to develop risk communication tools, being their peers the target public. It was an experiment of public engagement in risk communication that allowed young people to express their point of view and the way they would discuss and approach risks. Cartoons, animated drawings, interviews, and videos showed the way students see risk mitigation, in the age of parkour. The details of each students’ product are a lesson learned to shape risk communication campaigns in the future.

scholarly journals 42 Fall Brain: Cognitive and Biological Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (Supplement_4) ◽  
pp. iv9-iv12
Author(s):  
Joe Verghese
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Fall Prevention ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Clinical Predictors ◽  
Risk Of Falls ◽  
Falls In Older Adults ◽  
Reduce Risk ◽  
Risk Factors For Falls ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract While many fall prevention strategies targeted against clinical risk factors have been tested, their success in reducing falls has been modest. Current falls research in aging is mostly focused on clinical predictors of falls. Hence, there is a knowledge gap regarding the underlying biological and neural mechanisms of falls. Emerging evidence from our and other studies implicates biological derangements in inflammation, oxidative stress, and vascular pathways in the occurrence of disorders of gait, balance, and cognition, which in turn are major risk factors for falls in older adults. A growing understanding of the relationship between cognitive and mobility processes in aging opens up the possibility of novel interventions to improve mobility and reduce risk of falls.

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