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Title: Practical Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain. An Overview of Concepts and Tools in Switzerland: Date: 2009; Authors: Stephan Harvey, Paul Nigg; Description: Risk assessment and decision making tools for backcountry and off-piste skiing have changed time and again. Basic avalanche knowledge about the main ...; Object ID: issw-2009-0654-0658.pdf; Keywords: avalanche education, risk assessment, decision making; View additional details about Practical Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain. An Overview of Concepts and Tools in Switzerland

Title: Rules, Knowledge, Distance and Intuition - The Development of Risk Management Skills for Decision-Making in Avalanche Situations: Date: 2009; Authors: Jan Mersch, Wolfgang Behr; Description: Avalanches represent a major threat to people in high Alpine regions during the winter. However, a discrepancy exists between actual expert decisions...; Object ID: issw-2009-0659-0663.pdf; Keywords: avalanche education, naturalistic decision making, recognition and patterns, intuition, risk management; View additional details about Rules, Knowledge, Distance and Intuition - The Development of Risk Management Skills for Decision-Making in Avalanche Situations

Title: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card: Facts, Fictions, and Controversies: Date: 2008-09-26; Authors: Bob Uttl, Jan Uttl, Meaghen Henry; Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card, consisting of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues (Haegeli and McCammon, 2006), is marketed as a deci...; Object ID: P__8161.pdf; Keywords: risk, avalanche education, decision making; View additional details about The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card: Facts, Fictions, and Controversies

Title: Evaluating the Avaluator - First Reflections on the Canadian Decision Aid: Date: 2008-09-26; Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Wolfgang Haider; Description: In 2006, the Canadian Avalanche Centre introduced the Avaluator, a decision support tool that offers amateur backcountry recreationists decision guida...; Object ID: P__8116.pdf; Keywords: avaluator, decision-making, education, evaluation; View additional details about Evaluating the Avaluator - First Reflections on the Canadian Decision Aid

Title: A Lifetime of Learning in the Winter of 2008: Date: 2008-09-26; Authors: Marc PichÃ©; Description: The winter of 2008 produced a series of persistent weak layers that plagued backcountry skiers from the very beginning of the season. These layers for...; Object ID: P__8181.pdf; Keywords: persistent weak layer, decision-making, variability; View additional details about A Lifetime of Learning in the Winter of 2008

Title: Out-of-Bounds Avalanche Awareness: Assessment, Current Practices, and Future Management: Date: 2008-09-26; Authors: Ian McCammon, Pascal Haegeli, Matt Gunn; Description: Increasing numbers of recreationists are accessing the backcountry beyond the boundaries of winter resorts. For recreationists, the sudden transition ...; Object ID: P__8138.pdf; Keywords: decision making, resort operations, education, risk management; View additional details about Out-of-Bounds Avalanche Awareness: Assessment, Current Practices, and Future Management

Title: Avalanche Disasters in the Historic Record; A Survey of Cultural Attitudes in Western Civilization: Date: 2008-09-22; Authors: Adam Brown; Description: Avalanches have existed for as long as snow has covered mountainsides. As such they are a natural phenomenon of infinite age. Avalanches become natura...; Object ID: P__8253.pdf; Keywords: decision making, human factors; View additional details about Avalanche Disasters in the Historic Record; A Survey of Cultural Attitudes in Western Civilization

Title: The Role of Intuition in the Decision Process of Ski Guides: Date: 2008-09-22; Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson; Description: The criteria individuals use and much of the decision making related knowledge base in professional, mountain guiding has remained poorly understood e...; Object ID: P__8107.pdf; Keywords: decision making, intuition, expertise, confidence; View additional details about The Role of Intuition in the Decision Process of Ski Guides

Title: The Avaluator's Obvious Clues Accident Prevention Values: Are They Replicable?: Date: 2008-09-22; Authors: Bob Uttl, Meaghen Henry, Jan Uttl; Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card consists of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues (Haegeli and McCammon, 2006). For Obvious Clues, the u...; Object ID: P__8162.pdf; Keywords: risk, avalanche prevention, decision making; View additional details about The Avaluator's Obvious Clues Accident Prevention Values: Are They Replicable?

Title: A New Approach to Data Visualization for Avalanche Forecasting: Date: 2008-09-22; Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Harvey J. Miller; Description: A New Approach to Data Visualization for Avalanche Forecasting Phoebe B. Mcneally, Harvey J. Miller University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Avalan...; Object ID: P__8047.pdf; Keywords: avalanche forecasting, visualization, decision support; View additional details about A New Approach to Data Visualization for Avalanche Forecasting

Title: Evaluation of a Rule-Based Decision Aid for Recreational Travelers in Avalanche Terrain: Date: 2006; Authors: Ian McCammon, Pascal Haegeli; Description: This paper evaluates a new decision aid for traveling in avalanche terrain. The aid is intended primarily for winter recreationists in Canada and pro...; Object ID: issw-2006-234-243.pdf; Keywords: education, decision-making, risk management, safety; View additional details about Evaluation of a Rule-Based Decision Aid for Recreational Travelers in Avalanche Terrain

Title: Toward Better Decision-Making: Recognizing the Effect of Selection Bias in the Analysis of Recreational Avalanche Data: Date: 2006; Authors: N.J. DiGiacomo; Description: A number of decision-related â€œurban mythsâ€ have taken hold in avalanche education as a result of statistical analyses of recreational aval...; Object ID: issw-2006-244-253.pdf; Keywords: avalanche education, decision-making, accident case studies, statistical analysis; View additional details about Toward Better Decision-Making: Recognizing the Effect of Selection Bias in the Analysis of Recreational Avalanche Data

Title: The Avaluator â€“ A Canadian Rule-Based Avalanche Decision Support Tool for Amateur Recreationists: Date: 2006; Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Ian McCammon, Bruce Jamieson, Clair Israelson, Grant Statham; Description: An exceptionally high number of avalanche fatalities during the winter of 2003 forced the Canadian avalanche community to question the effectiveness ...; Object ID: issw-2006-254-263.pdf; Keywords: avalanche education, risk management, decision-making, decision support tool; View additional details about The Avaluator â€“ A Canadian Rule-Based Avalanche Decision Support Tool for Amateur Recreationists

Title: Holistic Geographical Visualization of Spatial Data with Applications in Avalanche Forecasting: Date: 2006; Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Harvey J. Miller; Description: Avalanche forecasters face ever increasing pressure to make more informed decisions and accurate predictions. Decisions often are made very quickly a...; Object ID: issw-2006-478-482.pdf; Keywords: geographic visualization, avalanche forecasting, spatial decision support system; View additional details about Holistic Geographical Visualization of Spatial Data with Applications in Avalanche Forecasting

Title: Supporting Sound Decisions: A Professional Perspective on Recreational Avalanche Accident Prevention in Canada: Date: 2004; Authors: Laura Adams; Description: Relative to recreationists, avalanche professionals in Canada have a high success rate for managing avalanche hazard and making sound decisions in ava...; Object ID: issw-2004-441-451.pdf; Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, human factors, hazard communication; View additional details about Supporting Sound Decisions: A Professional Perspective on Recreational Avalanche Accident Prevention in Canada

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