Website/Software Focus: Flood Ranger

Flood Ranger is an educational flood management game.

From the website-
Welcome to Flood Ranger, the game that tests your strategic skills.

You will have to anticipate the effects of climate change, meet the demands of different world models, and balance the needs of people and the environment by building flood defences, houses, businesses and infrastructure.

It is aimed at flood defence practitioners, local authorities, insurers, universities and schools.

The objective of the game is to defend urban areas and sites of special scientific interest while maintaining levels of housing and employment for an expanding population.

The game uses a virtual terrain loosely based on the east coast of England. The user can select between two world future scenarios in combination with four climate change scenarios taken from the UK Hadley Centre for Climate Change.

For more info-
http://www.discoverysoftware.co.uk/FloodRanger.htm

The help file gives some more detail on how things work-
http://www.discoverysoftware.co.uk/FRHelp/title.htm