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Title: SWOT analysis in management and danger of snow avalanches in Spain
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jon Apodaka, Irati Zuluaga
Description: The impacts of avalanches in Spain, including deaths, are concentrated in recreational and mountain sports activities, as well as in mountain and ski ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.17.pdf
Keywords: accident, rescue, education, pyrenees, risk management, spain
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Title: Freeride Vs. Freedead: case study of an avalanche accident with a chaotic rescue in the Pyrennes
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jon Apodaka
Description: As if a "Boeing 747" was spoken, today there are many practitioners of winter mountain activities that carry their own black boxes, installed with the...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O16.1.pdf
Keywords: accident, rescue, education, pyrenees, risk management
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Title: Are avalanche courses the new high-risk sport? - Use of Sensation Seeking Scale in avalanche education highlights the need for reassessment of participants’ true nature and suggests that the test itself can serve as a learning tool
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Stefan MÃ¥rtensson, MÃ¥rten Johansson
Description: In a perfect world, the risk of dying in an avalanche should decrease with knowledge. On the contrary, studies have shown that this risk might increas...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O16.3.pdf
Keywords: human factors, risk-taking, education, sensation seeking scale, high-risk sports
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Title: Backcountry Ascender’ Avalanche Educator Case Study - Leveraging Incentive Based Learning and Peer Accountability to Drive Avalanche Education
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Christopher W. Mayer
Description: There is a growing divide between snowmobile technological capabilities and backcountry management skills. At the same time, the hashtag culture among...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O16.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, gamification, social learning theory, predictive learning
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Title: Avalanche Rescue - precognition and training improve time necessary to free airways and start resuscitation in companion rescue after complete avalanche burial - a randomized single blinded mannequin study
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bernd Wallner, Luca Moroder, Anna Brandt, Hannah Kranebitter, Stefanie Erhart, Mirjam Bachler, Gabriel Putzer, Giacomo Strapazzon, Rachel Turner, Markus Falk, Peter Mair, Hermann Brugger
Description: Introduction Death from asphyxia is the leading cause for mortality in totally buried avalanche victims. The chance of survival is 91% when extricated...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O16.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, gamification, social learning theory, predictive learning
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Title: Development of avalanche search and rescue courses in Japan based on the best practice in avalanche rescue by mountainsafety.info
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Tomoaki Fujimura, Ken-Ichi Sakakibara
Description: An avalanche search and rescue course according to "The best practice avalanche rescue" developed by Manuel Genswein was first held in Japan, in 2015/...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche education, companion rescue, international standardization of avalanche rescue
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Title: The "essential distinctions" - rethinking avalanche education and communication habits
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Lukas Ruetz
Description: The human factor plays an important role in recreational activities in avalanche-prone terrain. A discourse about group dynamics has been conducted in...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, communication, manageability, recreation matrix
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Title: A college-level training program for avalanche safety workers
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Roger Coit, Kelly Elder, Ethan Greene, Rebecca Hodgetts, Brian Lazar, John MacKinnon, Blase Reardon
Description: Colorado Mountain College (CMC) is a higher education system with 11 campuses serving over 30,000 km2 of north-central Colorado. The college offers tw...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, professional avalanche worker training, avalanche certification
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Title: FINLAV - Finnish Avalanche Education - From scratch to curriculum
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Eeva Mäkelä, Jussi Muittari, Kai Lehtonen
Description: Humak University of Applied Sciences received funding from the European Social Fund for an avalanche education development project. This three-year pr...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche awareness, finland
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Title: Avalanche Incident Countermeasures by the Japan AvSAR Council
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Azusa Degawa, Makoto Kuroda, Tatsunori Fukumaki, Ikuo Imataki, Hidenori Higashi, Takashi Kawashima
Description: Against a background of the diversification of winter recreation and increasing numbers of backcountry skiers and snowboarders, mountain fields in pop...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche search & rescue, avalanche education, avalanche incidents
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Title: Courses on snow and avalanches at the BOKU University of Life Sciences and Natural Hazards, Vienna, Austria
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: The University of Life Sciences and Natural Hazards (BOKU) in Vienna, Austria, provides several courses on snow and avalanches, each with different th...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, boku university
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Title: Theory and Practice in Introductory Avalanche Education
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Cassandra Balent, Jerry Johnson, Jordy Hendrikx, Elizabeth A. Shanahan
Description: This study examines how students experience an AIARE Level 1 avalanche course. How do they describe their experience? What motivated them to take the ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, human factor, experiential learning
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Title: Avalanche education in Austria - about the current status and a new concept
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Lukas Ruetz, Matthias Walcher
Description: Snow and avalanche courses for winter sport enthusiasts as well as avalanche professionals in Austria are organized by various alpine institutions. Th...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.19.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche prevention, avalanche training, saveu, albina
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Title: Practical education kit for avalanche training with groups
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Hansueli Rhyner, Stephan Harvey, Lukas Dürr, Hans Martin Henny
Description: «Learning by doing» is an obvious credo for every instructor. In avalanche education, however, trying out everything yourself can be dangerous. ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche prevention, backcountry touring, education, training kit
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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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