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Title: REFLECTIONS ON A (AVALANCHE) RISK-ADJUSTED APPROACH IN SPATIAL PLANNING IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Barbara Steinbrunner
Description: Spatial planning has an increasingly important role in natural hazard management due to its prevention character and influence on spatial distribution...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O13.04.pdf
Keywords: risk-adjusted, spatial planning, natural hazard management, residual risk
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Title: A manual for assessing, mapping and mitigating snow avalanche risk
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Ryan Buhler, Cam Campbell, Michael Conlan, Brian Gould, Greg Johnson, Alan Jones, Grant Statham, Scott Thumlert
Description: In summer 2018, the Canadian Avalanche Association will publish a book entitled Planning Methods for Assessing and Mitigating Snow Avalanche Risk. Thi...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.12.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, planning, assessment, mapping, mitigation, hazard, risk.
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Title: Implementation of the large-scale avalanche hazard mapping into Russian practice
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Pelageya Rodionova, Alla Turchaninova, Yury Seliverstov, Tatiana Glazovskaya
Description: The snow avalanches endangered regions in Russia occupy 18% of the territory. But the large-scale avalanche hazard zoning is not yet used for the land...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P03.13.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, risk, land use planning, numerical modeling, ramms.
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Title: Ski Touring Bitacora - An innovative approach for trip planning, recording observations, and risk management while traveling in Avalanche terrain
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Santiago Rodriguez, Pedro Rodriguez, Bryan Biggs
Description: The use of field books for recording weather, avalanche and snowpack observations is essential for recreationists, professionals, and snow scientists....
Object ID: ISSW2018_P18.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, field book, field journal, ski touring planning
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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: Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale mapping in the Pyrenees: an expanding project
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Montse Bacardit, Sara Orgué, Ivan Moner, Jordi Gavaldà, Aina Margalef, Marc Pons, Gerard Olm, Rocío Hurtado, Pablo Huelin Rueda, Albert Piqué Badia, Miguel Ángel Clavero, Luis Masgrau
Description: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) was developed by Parks Canada in 2004 to inform backcountry users about the exposure to avalanche danger o...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain; exposure; zoning; risk management; trip planning
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Title: Supporting, Evaluating, and Planning Avalanche Control Efforts with Lidar-Derived Snow Depth Maps
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jeffrey S. Deems, Ryan Evanczyk, Dominic Vellone, Ethan Greene, Tyler Weldon, David C. Finnegan, Peter J. Gadomski, Adam L. LeWinter
Description: Recent studies have demonstrated the applicability and potential for ground-based lidar mapping to support avalanche control operations. High-resoluti...
Object ID: ISSW16_O9.02.pdf
Keywords: lidar, spatial variability, avalanche control, infrastructure planning
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Title: In the Pursuit of Standards - the Next Step in Canada's Avalanche Risk Management Guidelines
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Cam Campbell, Steve Conger, Brian Gould, Pascal Haegeli, Bruce Jamieson, Grant Statham
Description: Recognizing the need to standardize new and innovative Canadian avalanche risk management practices and respond to increasing demand from regulatory b...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk, management, guidelines, planning, operations
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Title: Measuring Avalanche Risk and Level of Service for a Transportation Network – a Practical Approach
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Steve Conger
Description: This paper describes innovative metrics to explore the traffic service quality experienced by highway travelers as a result of avalanche risk mitigati...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.49.pdf
Keywords: planning risk assessment, highways, ahi, uncertainty, hazard rating, racs, integral avalanche protection, calibrated probabilities
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Title: Developing Operational Guidelines to Reduce Risk Workers at U.S. Avalanche Centers
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Simon A. Trautman, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Workplace avalanche accidents claimed the lives of 11 avalanche workers in the United States over the last five years. Though none of the victims work...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O12.04.pdf
Keywords: safety, risk, risk management, operations, planning, worker
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Title: Merging of Recent Developments in Avalanche Simulation Technology into Practice
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Yves Bühler, Marc Christen, Lisa Dreier, Thomas Feistl, Perry Bartelt
Description: Numerical simulations are essential for hazard mapping and mitigation measure planning in avalanche engineering. Avalanche experts rely on numerical m...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.03.pdf
Keywords: ramms, numerical simulation, hazard mapping, mitigation measure planning
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Title: Planning and Radio Use for Backcountry Skiers
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Jerry D. Johnson, Kirk Bachman, Drew Pogge
Description: We assessed tour planning and group communication among backcountry hut users and how the use of the new BCA Link two-way radios affected these two re...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.13.pdf
Keywords: tour planning, radio communication, backcountry safety
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Title: What Do Avalanche Students Recall One Year Post Course? International Snow Science Workshop 2014 in Banaff, Alberta
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Nancy Geismar
Description: We wanted to gather data on how well Avalanche Skills Training (AST) 1 students recall what they learned. We understand that "recall" may be different...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.29.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, knowledge retention, good habits, trip planning
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Title: Qualitative Analysis of the Transfer of Knowledge About Snow Avalanches in the Land Use Planning of Four Territories of Europe - Qualitative Analysis and Conceptual Map
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Luis G. López-Cobo
Description: Scientific research on snow avalanches and land use planning is relatively modern. We know of no previous work that analyzes the knowledge transfer a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-32.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, regional/spatial planning, knowledge transfer, conceptual map, grounded theory
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Title: White Risk 2.0 – A New Web-Based Platform for Avalanche Education
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Samuli Aegerter, Daniel Landolt
Description: In 2006 we developed the interactive learning CD „White Risk“ for promoting avalanche awareness. It rapidly became a popular product for a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-08.pdf
Keywords: white risk, avalanche education, web-based platform, e-learning, didactics, trip planning
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