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Title: Reducing Risky Behaviors: Applying Theories of Behavioral Change to Avalanche Education
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Neil S. Geisler, Karl R. Geisler
Description: Avalanche course curriculum tends to focus on three main areas: the technical and observable underpinnings of avalanche formation and release, decisio...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, human factors, decision making, risk, behavior change
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Title: The Avalanche Science Centre – The Science Programme
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Rune Engeset, Audun Hetland, Carsten Roland, Sigmund Andersen, Yngve Birkelund, Matthias Forwick, Markus Landrø, Andrea Mannberg, Bjørn Michaelsen
Description: UiT The Arctic University of Norway is establishing the Avalanche Science Centre during the period 2015-2017. The mission of the Centre is to provide ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.45.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, human factor, avalanches
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Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Winter 2012/13 in Monterosa Ski Resort – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Prola A., Welf A., Durand N., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Segor V.
Description: Monterosa Ski is one of the most important resorts in the North/West Italian Alps. Extending through three valleys in two regions (Aosta Valley and Pi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-15.pdf
Keywords: ski resort, avalanche, risk management
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Title: Bayes’ Beacon: Avalanche Prediction, Competence, and Evidence for Competence, Modelling the Effect of Competent and Incompetent Predictions of Highly Improbable Events
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Philip A. Ebert, Theoni Photopoulou
Description: In this paper, we will discuss how competence can affect a person’s ability to avoid avalanches and present a way of modelling such competence....
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-04.pdf
Keywords: decision-making in avalanche-terrain, modelling competence, bayes’ theorem
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Title: Mieux se Connaitre Pour Mieux Décider. Réflexions Sur le Comportement du Leader
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Sébastien Escande, Rémi Engelbrecht
Description: Better know to make better decisions. Focus on the behavior of the leader. The authors present different approaches inspired by methods of team manage...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-07.pdf
Keywords: leader behaviour, temperament profile, decision making, group management
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Title: Decision Making In Avalanche Terrain the Extended 3*3 Method
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François-Xavier Cierco, and Sébastien Escande
Description: Safety of outdoor activities in avalanche terrain is mainly addressed thanks to risk management procedures or individual behaviour analyses. It result...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-12.pdf
Keywords: decision process, risk analysis, 3*3 method, human factors, avalanche
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Title: The Role of Avalanche Character in Public Avalanche Safety Products
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Karl Klassen, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham
Description: Avalanche character is a significant factor in professional decision-making (Atkins, 2004). Weak layer/interface, slab properties, persistence, weak l...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-13.pdf
Keywords: wet slab, slab, cornice
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Title: Toward Better Decision Tools for the Management of Frequent Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Segor, V., Pitet, L., Bovet E., Dellavedova P., Sovilla B., Steinkogler W., Veitinger J., Maggioni M., Chiambretti I., Prola M.
Description: Avalanche safety personnel often face with the problem of whether to close a road or a ski-resort exposed frequently to avalanches. Such decisions are...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-03.pdf
Keywords: strada, frequent avalanches, management, routes, ski-resorts, strategies
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Title: Road Network Management in the Context of Natural Hazards: A Decision-Aiding Process Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods and Network Structural Properties Analysis
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Tacnet J.-M., Mermet E., Zadonina E., Deschatres M., Humbert P., Dissart J.-C., Labbe S.
Description: In mountain areas, transport infrastructures (roads, railways) are exposed to natural hazards such as avalanches, torrent floods and rockfalls. Road n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-69.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, natural hazards, mountains, indirect vulnerability, roads, network structural properties, information quality
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Title: A New Model for Operational Winter Road Surface Conditions Forecasting in Météo-France
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ludovic Bouilloud, Odile Coudert, Alain Foidart
Description: During winter, snow presence on the road might have serious consequences on road traffic and security, especially in plain areas where snow occurrence...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-31.pdf
Keywords: winter maintenance, snow, road surface conditions, forecasting
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Title: Integrating the ATES into the Avalanche Information in Aran Valley (Central Pyrenees)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jordi Gavaldà, Ivan Moner, Montse Bacardit
Description: During the 2011-12 winter season, the Aran Avalanche Center established an Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) pilot area in Aran Valley. The ATES...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-01.pdf
Keywords: ates, avalanche terrain, trip planner, aran valley, pyrenees
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Title: Progression en Terrain Enneigé Progression in a Snowy Environment
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paul Bonhomme and Copil
Description: Whether it is in winter, in summer or still for a journey, the guide is very often brought to evolve in snowy environment. Beyond this, he is the onl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-04.pdf
Keywords: management, constraints, tools, project
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Title: Wikisnow – Interface for Decision Makers in Snow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Martin Berner und Martin Schuster
Description: The coordination of decision makers that provides customers with a great choice of offpiste guiding and ski tours in the ski resort Arlberg/Austria, ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-06.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, coordination decision makers, wikisnow-infoplatform, app-real time update of events, safe offpiste skiing, arlberg/austria
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Title: Understanding Travel Behaviour in Avalanche Terrain: A New Approach
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Ellie Southworth
Description: To date, most studies of the human dimensions of decision-making in avalanche terrain has focused on two areas - post-accident analysis using accident...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-09.pdf
Keywords: decision making, human factors, heuristics, gps, gis, terrain analysis
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Title: Ski-Touring, Avalanche Risk and Human Factors
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Boris Valat, et Ludovic Ravanel
Description: Every winter, mountain practitioners are directly confronted with the question of avalanches. During the 2011-2012 season, 32 avalanche accidents and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-14.pdf
Keywords: ski touring, avalanche risk, human factors, decision making
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