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Title: Risk-oriented vs hazard-oriented decision-making for opening and closing of traffic routes
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Michael Bründl, Lukas Stoffel, Walter Steinkogler
Description: People expect to be safe when driving on roads. During winter, local avalanche services in charge for infrastructure safety continuously assess the ha...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard and risk assessment, duty of care, individual risk, decision making, safety services.
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Title: Results of a survey amongst avalanche professionals on preventive avalanche control
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Lisa Dreier, Walter Steinkogler
Description: With the aim to improve our understanding of decision making processes amongst avalanche professionals in relation to preventive avalanche control, we...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P09.1.pdf
Keywords: preventive avalanche control, practitioner, survey, decision-making.
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Title: Avalanche Problem Solver (APS) - a decision support system for forecasters
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Karsten Müller, Rune V. Engeset, Markus Landrø, Tore Humstad, Espen B. Granan, Håvard Thorset
Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service is developing a data analysis and decision support system called Avalanche Problem Solver (APS). The goal is t...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, decision making, data analysis
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Title: Snow avalanches and accountability - Examples from Svalbard, Norway
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Hrefna Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, Holt Hancock, Markus Eckerstorfer
Description: Nation states and local authorities involved in disaster risk reduction decision making are increasingly faced with the legal consequences of their de...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O14.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, accountability, risk-management decision making, disaster risk reduction
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Title: Are strategic methods sufficient for an adequate assessment of avalanche danger? - the state of facts in the case of a judicial procedure
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Peter Höller
Description: The number of strategic methods to estimate a prevailing situation in the field is quite large and not well-structured. The majority of these methods ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P14.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, strategies, decision making
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Title: Illegal & Lethal Snowmobiling in Northern Norway`s Avalanche Prone Mountains - what`s going on?
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bjørn Michaelsen, Carsten Rolland, Rune V. Engeset
Description: Snowmobile avalanche related accidents is an increasing problem in Norway. Out of the 58 fatalities between 2009 and 2015, 10 were snowmobilers. Anoth...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P14.4.pdf
Keywords: snowmobiling, illegal, qualitative methods, avalanche education, decision-making
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Title: How do we really use terrain in the backcountry? A comparison between stated terrain preferences and observed backcountry travel behaviour
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Hendrikx J., Johnson J., Mannberg A.
Description: Surveys have been used in avalanche research to gain insights into risk preferences and hypothetical choices to understand the links and drivers betwe...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.1.pdf
Keywords: decision making, backcountry, survey, risk, gps tracking, terrain analysis
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Title: A Bayesian perspective on avalanche decision-making and the relevance of stability test
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Philip A. Ebert
Description: In this paper, I explore a Bayesian perspective on avalanche decision-making. I motivate this general outlook by introducing a well-known cognitive bi...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.12.pdf
Keywords: bayesian reasoning, avalanche decision-making, avalanche education, base-rate fallacy, snow science, risk management
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Title: To go or not to go: Decision making at individual slope
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Hansueli Rhyner, Lukas Dürr, Hans Martin Henny
Description: The holistic assessment and decision framework «3 × 3» is well established for ski and snowboard tours. Whereas difficult decisions can be p...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.15.pdf
Keywords: decision making, avalanche prevention, individual slope, backcountry touring, risk assessment, education
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Title: Are they experts? Self-assessed backcountry skills among backcountry skiers in Norway and North America
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Mannberg A., Hendrikx J., Johnson J.
Description: We analyze how backcountry skiers’ perceived ability to manage avalanche terrain correlate with more objective measures of experience and skill...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.18.pdf
Keywords: self-assessed skill, over-confidence, backcountry, decision-making
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Title: Are You Sharp While Ascending?
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Audun Hetland, Gerit Pfuhl, Maia Herding Solberg, Fred Inge Guttormsen, August Nordby, Martin Jensen Mækelæ, Andrea Mannberg
Description: Objective: Avalanches pose a major threat to people negotiating avalanche terrain. The majority of the accidents occur as a result of one or several s...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.20.pdf
Keywords: physical activity, exercise, decision-making, deliberate reasoning
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Title: How can (serious) gaming help to trace and improve snow avalanche expertise process? An innovative methodology and application to roads risk management
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: VIDAUD Laure, TACNET Jean-Marc, PINET François, PASQUIER Xavier, ESCANDE Sébastien, DUCLOS Alain, JOUSSELME Anne-Laure
Description: Management of mountain roads exposed to snow avalanches involves several actors local who have often to take difficult and quick decisions under socia...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O16.4.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, roads, risk management, crisis, decision-making, serious gaming, expertise, information quality, traceability
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Title: Avalanche danger ratings and deaths, putting things into perspective
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Terry Eyland
Description: Avalanche forecasters spend a lot of time to determine current and predicted avalanche danger levels, but to what extend does this danger rating have ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.4.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, avalanche danger scale, human factors, avalanche education
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Title: Backcountry risk assessment based on terrain and snowpack characteristics
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Chris Semmel
Description: Despite an increase in back country travels, in the past 20 years the total number of fatalities remained about constant in the Alps. This decreasing ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.2.pdf
Keywords: decision making, trip planning, route selection
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Title: Keeping up with Jeremy Jones: Positional preferences and risky terrain choices
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Andrea Mannberg, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
Description: We use results from an online survey distributed in North America (N = 796), to analyze if backcountry riders’ level of contentment is affected...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.6.pdf
Keywords: decision making, backcountry, postionality, terrain
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